Rosenblatt for President

Dr. Rosenblatt has been Graham's Primary Care, CF, and Transplant physician for 20 - 25 years.  Graham has followed him from Presbyterian Hospital (where they use to house the cystic fibrosis kiddos) to St. Paul to Baylor.  So to say there isn't a tight relationship is an understatement.  Dr. Rosenblatt is not only the big dog for all Heart and Lung Transplant patients in North Texas, he is also one of the leading doctors in America for Heart and Lungs.  This means he travels a lot and leaves his team of doctors to handle his patients at home in Dallas.  These doctors are highly qualified, don't get me wrong; but there is not a strong bond like Rosenblatt and Graham have.  So the pushing and fighting are not necessarily there.

Dr. Rosenblatt is the one who went to the IR Lab and raised some hell and Graham was immediately dealt with for his Catheter and Port.  Then Rosenblatt goes back out of town and no one will push to start Photopheresis.  Well, King Rosenblatt is back....

Graham will be starting his treatments for rejection today!!!  Any hour now he'll be traveling down to the Pheresis Lab to get this ball going.  This is NOT an immediate fix by all means.  The way we have been describing is it is kind of the same process as Dialysis.  He will go in 2 or 3 times a week for 6 to 8 weeks and it will taper off from there.  This process will slowly build up his white blood cells so that they may fight off this rejection.  While it is not immediate and today is not a life saving procedure, it is the beginning of one.

I asked Graham last night how he felt.  He told me it will work, he has no doubt in his mind.  I may have grown up trusting everyone, even the creepy man in the van with candy, but he has taught me strength and perseverance.  And that is who he is, who we are.  He fully knows and believes he is going no where soon.  Makes my heart happy.

He has now eaten every meal since lunch yesterday too.  Medicine and prayers are working.

The Transplant Team meets today and Graham is on the docket to be discussed.  All tests are in and now it is in the Doctors and Surgeons hands.  We will find out today or tomorrow if they will grant him a 2nd transplant.  Please pray, think, or meditate that this happens.