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Monthly Archives: January 2007

UCLA v. National Statistics

Saturday, January 13, 2007

The new lung transplant statistics are out, so you can scamper on over here and take a look at how UCLA does compared to the rest of the country for the period ending June 2006. You can use the drop down window to look at all sorts of interesting statistics. My favorite is number six, [...]

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LAS of 50.32

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Jim’s lung allocation score is 50.32, which is up there with the folks who are most sick on the transplant list at UCLA. As of December 29, 2006 there were three people on the list at UCLA with type O blood who had an LAS of 50 or above. Hopefully they are shorter than Jim [...]

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Insert Clever Title Here (We’re fresh out of clever today.)

Monday, January 8, 2007

Today Jim’s transplant was approved by his new health insurance company, Aetna. He was moved from Blue Shield to Aetna at the first of the year and thus far the change has been painless. Jim also had an appointment with UCLA today, but that was not exactly without pain. He found out that his donor [...]

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Welcome to 2007

Saturday, January 6, 2007

Jim has an appointment with UCLA on Monday morning, so he and his dad will be loading up the oxygen tanks and hitting the freeways just as soon as the traffic has thinned out a bit. The appointment is for his regular check up, so we aren’t expecting anything interesting to happen. But then again [...]

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