Preparing for a bronchoscopy Tuesday

Alison enjoyed this past weekend having her Dad as company, and then friend Meghan Imoehl spent Sunday into Monday with her before Joleen made the trek back to Iowa City in lots of snow, and Meghan drove back to Cedar Falls in the same nasty snow! Going to be a long week with weather like this!

There were the typical labs and rehab today .... tomorrow Alison's slated for a bronchoscopy in which they'll look at those new lungs of hers. Since she'll be somewhat sedated anyway, that's when they'll also remove the last of the stitches from her chest (rib area) where the chest tubes had been doing their job. Doesn't she look great with pink-colored cheeks? In this photo taken Saturday, she's counting out her pills for the week. Not all are the serious anti-rejection drugs like Tacrolomus – there's iron and calcium in there too!

Promise to provide a report tomorrow after the all important bronchoscopy. Alison's expecting they will tell her an approximate release date too. So stay tuned!