15. December 2007 by Nate.

Another update from Barb. As of 10:00am today:

Hi all,

Carol got out of Intensive Care last evening (Friday) and is back on the 6th floor. She is still on track to go home on Sunday, but she will have to get up and start walking to be able to do that. The nurses will probably make her do that today. The kidney is working - her blood creatinine levels are coming down toward normal. Jaime is also doing well. She will be released either later today or tomorrow. Thank you all for your continuing prayers.

Love, Barb

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14. December 2007 by Nate.

From an email from Barb (Carol’s sister). Sent earlier this evening.

Hello all,
Sorry to be so late in contacting you, but it has been a very long day. It started much later than we expected, with Jaime the donor starting her surgery at 9am and Carol not starting hers until almost 11am. It was successful for both of them. Jaime was finished about 230pm and Carol at 5pm. The kidney is in and functioning-already producing urine. Both Carol and Jaime are doing well. Jaime is back in her regular hospital room tonight. Carol is in the ICU unit for the night and if she continues to do as well as she is now, will be back in her regular room sometime tomorrow. Thank you all for your prayers and support. I feel like Carol was surrounded by a halo of love all through this process. I will try to send another update either tomorrow or Saturday as there is news to report. Thank you again.

Barb Garton
(aka Carol’s sister)

Thanks for reading [and praying].

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6. December 2007 by Carol.

Many of you have asked me to have something posted on the internet about my experiences of going through a kidney transplant.  My colleague and friend, Nate Kauffman, created this little blog site for me and I will attempt to ramble about what it’s all like and maybe even occasionally wax eloquent.  So welcome to my blog.  We’ll see what comes out of it.

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