Today was a long day. We arrived at KU at 6:30a.m. this morning and arrived at home tonight at 6:30pm. Steve started at the lab drawing blood this morning and urine. I think they drained him. They took 15 vials. At 7:30 they took him and did an echo cardiogram etc.., then about 2 hours later he had an ultrasound of the stomach. Next they started a stress test on his heart did some preliminary stuff and then gave him the nuclear shot and we had to wait 3 hours, came back and they scanned the heart again. Most everything that was done today was testing of the heart. We saw one heart doctor today. Dr. G and he talked with us a while and said he would call next week with the result of all the test. Most likely everything will be fine but he said there are a lot of people walking around with heart problems and they don't even know it. They have little or no symptoms. If something would be wrong they would have time to correct it before the transplant (2years away). That is why all these test are being done to make sure every area of him is in good shape.

We were impressed today at KU when they mentioned Steve's Nephrologist in St. Joe, Dr. Brown everyone praised her highly. KU has worked with her for years and had so many good things to say about her.

Our next appointment will be about what they call socializing with some of the transplant doctors, nurses and case worker. We will be doing this the first of April. We go and talk with them after watching a video about a transplant. We are suppose to watch the video and write down our questions. I sure hope there is not a test over this.

We still need all the prayers. Thanks so much and we will keep blogging it might not be as often due to a lot of time between appointments now which is a good thing. Gives Steve a break from this.

Love Steve, Christy & girls