Good morning all. Or is it afternoon? I'm completely time warped after being up most of the past 36 hours.
It was a long night. The donor was a 20 year old girl in DE that had been in a critical car accident and was on life support with no chance of survival. At 10:30 am, the family said their final goodbyes and consented to take her off life support.
Her liver was harvested, prepped and flown by helicopter to Hahnemann Hospital in Philly where the transplant surgery began at 2:17 pm today.
Surgery is expected to take 12-14 hours and will be followed by 3-7 days of ICU. After that is another 10-30 days in the hospital before transitioning to the next phase of recovery. It will be a long time before we will know if we are out of the woods on any part of this.