Exciting!!!!

I checked my email just a few minutes ago, and I had an email FROM MY MOM!!!

She gave me a room number and a phone number for me to call her, so I IMMEDIATELY grabbed the phone!! Besides our 30 second conversation last Wednesday evening, today was the first time I've been able to talk to her in two weeks! I was excited to the point of tears!!!

She got moved into a regular room as of about 6:00 this morning. She said that yesterday was very exhausting; she went through a BUNCH of testing that she's never had to do before. She also said that she feels better than she has in a long time--she actually feels like getting up and walking around a bit and eating. She hasn't had an appetite in weeks. Talking on the phone does wear her out, so our phone conversation wasn't very long.

Some things of note:

**Dr. Robbins is the lead research doctor of PH. I thought he was the lead research transplant doctor. He is actually gone this weekend for the PH convention.

**They do want to switch her medicine from Remodulin to Flolan to see how it works first. The transplant is not off the table at this point, they just have to exhaust every other option first. Her body also has to be in tip-top shape in order to have the transplant.

**Mom's words to me were, "Leah, I just feel so strongly that God needed me to go through everything in the last two weeks to get me to this doctor." We talked about how thankful we are that Dr. Wright, Dr. Coker, Dr. Hundley, and Dr. Squires were proactive in their care for her. What a blessing.

**It looks as though Mom will still be at Vanderbilt for a while. She's totally okay with that because she knows she's in good hands and getting the best care.

**She has a laptop in her room, so I told her that when she feels like it, we'll set her up as an administrator on this web-site, so you guys can hear from her yourself!! YAY!!!