November 14

12:38am

I. Um.

Nat just called and said they have a liver.

That doesn’t mean it’s going to be viable — there’s a lot of false alarms in this shit, because the first glance doesn’t always mean it’s going to work out.

But holy shit.

So I’m closing my bill at the hotel out now and going back to the hospital. Surgery will probably be around two in the afternoon, if all goes well.

I put “Get listed!” on his whiteboard under “plan for the day” this morning [technically yesterday morning]  and after we got confirmation he was listed, the docs laughed and said “you need to check that off and add Get Liver underneath” so I did.

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9:51am

News: we’ve gotten almost no sleep, we’re still a “go” for the surgery so far, surgery is scheduled for 2pm, it’s really going to come down to how the liver looks when the surgeons can see it

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1:26pm

We’re waiting to hear whether the liver is good. They started the donor surgery at 1pm (if they were on schedule) but they haven’t reported anything to us yet

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5:00pm

Nathaniel went back at 4pm and the surgery is 10-12 hours. So now we wait.