Yesterday's Trip to Duke for a Biopsy

Noah went back to Duke for a biopsy yesterday. That’s where they go into his heart through his neck to observe the heart and take a few tissue samples. They observe the heart to determine how well it’s functioning and the tissue samples are to test for rejection. The rejection results haven’t come back yet, but the cardiologist who performed the biopsy said that the heart function is looking good. He said that the muscle is still a little thick, but it sounded like Noah is growing into it. While Noah was in the cath lab, Maria and I ate some breakfast and prepared our letter of thanks to the donor family. We dropped the letter off to a lady on his transplant team and talked with her for a while. Then Maria and I went to recovery to hang out with Noah until they discharged him. Once we were free, we brought Noah up to the PICU to see some of his old nurses. We got a warm homecoming there – that’s our favorite part about going back to the hospital. Then we ate some lunch and headed back to pick up Autumn from our neighbors, for whom we are very thankful. We owe our neighbors some cookies or something for taking Autumn so early in the morning. When we finally got home, we all took a nap.