STATUS 1B Here I COME!!!

I got to Shands yesterday, Monday, May 10 at 12:00. They didn't have a room ready for me so I went to ADTU (Admissions Discharge Transmission Unit) it's basically holding rooms until they can get you your room ready. I was there from 1 til 6pm. Then I went for a EKG, CT Scan and a Chest X-ray. Then I was brought to my room on 5th floor, Cardio 54 in 5448A. This is a Cardio ICU but not like the one I usually go to on the 2nd floor. This is like the step down from that one (2nd floor is a more critical ICU). I met with Oksana this morning, who is my Transplant Coordinator, she went over the plans. Today they will come and put in a PICC line. A PICC line is a IV port that will go up under the skin on my left forearm. A PICC line goes in through a major artery not a vein. The reason they dont go through a vein is so they can leave it for months and the medicine would blow a vein. Then they will start the pre-transplant medicine through the PICC line. There is 2 different types a medicine they can try. They will monitor me closely for a couple days and make sure I don't throw arrhythmia's. I will then be bumped up on the UNOS list from a Status 2 to a Status 1B. This is GREAT!!! I'm waiting now for them to come do the PICC line!!!