Karen will be discharged from the hospital this afternoon! All of her lab values are excellent and she feels great. We will have to remain in Baltimore until mid March with frequent visits back to Johns Hopkins for lab tests and clinical visits while they dial in and regulate her anti-rejection and blood thinning meds and continue to closely monitor her kidney function. But we are looking forward to a bit more freedom.
We are extremely impressed with Johns Hopkins. The entire staff has been great, things seem to happen in a timely fashion and they are so "on top" of everything. It has been an amazing experience and a model for what health care can and should be!
We have been "adopted" by two local churches. One is Hunt Valley Church that we attended our first week here through a connection back in Winston-Salem. The other is Redeemer City Church which is a new church plant from Summit Church in Durham (the church Russ attends while at NC State). These churches have been great at caring for us and providing meals etc.
Russ flies in tomorrow to spend a week with us and we look forward to that. Ashley had to cancel her visit due to her family being sick and she did not want to expose Karen to this (with her compromised immunity).
I will probably discontinue daily posts to this blog but will update every couple of days or when there is a significant change. Thanks again for all the comments on the blog, emails and cards. We love reading them.
Rusty
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