Monday

Dr. Optimistic is on rotation this week.  That's my name for the attending because he was so positive he was going to get me a lot of answers today regarding the exception letter and our latest living donor's status.  I said "Good luck" this morning to him.  I have to give him some credit.  He did come back a little while ago to report that Dr. Superina (who is not back in town until tomorrow) was very adamant that he read the potential donor's MRI.  OK.  Gotta love that the big guy wants to do it himself, but tomorrow he'd better be all over it.  Also, Dr. Optimistic did find out that 10 centers have to reply to the exception request.  Six have replied so far; reminder e-mails have been sent to the remaining four.  So far we have 3 that have said yes and 3 have said no.  We need 5 to say yes.  That means 5 can say no as long as we have 5 that have said yes.  Now I'm feeling optimistic.  Hopefully we hear from the remaining 4 tomorrow.

Shelby's sats have stayed stable all day while at 6L of 60% oxygen.  While that's NOT normally what they take on the floor, we are able to stay.  I think acute decompensation (respiratory distress) or if she needs 7L at 70% would get us moved to the PICU.

We have a new little one in the room next to us.  This is going to be a long night.  Its already been a long day of crying/screaming.  Ugh.