Thursday, November 23, 2006
We have so much for which to be thankful. I’ll make this post short and sweet by referring you to Jim’s Post. Thanks for checking on Jim.
Friday, November 17, 2006
Jim just called his transplant coordinator to talk about his insurance change and found out that the donor height requirement has been changed again. It has been moved from 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 11 inches. In the US roughly 50 percent of the adult male population are 5ft 9in or taller while [...]
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Today Jim found out that his employer may be changing insurance companies at the first of the year. And when I say employer I don’t mean Brave New Films because the change is really being made through the media group to which Brave New Films belongs. And as you would expect, the folks at Brave [...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
In an amazing turn of events Jay, Jim’s transplant coordinator, called to tell him that he is now approved for donor lungs from anyone 5 ft. 9 in. or taller. As you can imagine this blows open the donor pool and has us celebrating over here at Casa Gilliam. Buckle your seat belts because things [...]
Jim’s fever broke around dinner time, so he is feeling better now. Maybe his flu shot gave him a wee bit of the flu? He thinks he’ll be better tomorrow. Yay!
Jim didn’t hear anything from the transplant team on Thursday, so on Friday he called his transplant coordinator, Jay, and found out that the meeting had been canceled. Jim is still on the waiting list and will hopefully find out more after the next transplant team meeting on Thursday. Jay has been proactive in trying [...]
Thursday, November 2, 2006
The UCLA lung transplant team meets every Thursday, so we are hoping to hear something from them today. Jim went to see his pulmonologist, Dr. Kahan, yesterday for a checkup. Dr. Kahan gave him his flu shot and did a blood workup. Dr. Kahan also tried calling UCLA but couldn’t get through to Dr. Lynch. [...]
