Heart4Ash (Skwig)

I had a doctors appointment this morning and everything is looking good. According to my LVAD nurses my waveforms are awesome and my drive-line site is looking mighty fine fantastic! It has been a month since my last blood transfusion, this means they are going to re-check my antibody levels. Right now I am at the top of the transplant list, but I have a restriction that the donor heart needs to be local. If my antibody test comes back normal they are going to remove the local restriction. Which will allow my donor heart to come from Boise, Jackson, Tucson even Albuquerque!! So this is going to make my waiting time decrease a wee bit I'm thinking :) Thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedules and especially around this Christmas season to pray for me, I honestly feel them, so thank you very very much! I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!

It has been a full 2 months since Gus was placed in me and I have been out of the hospital for 21 days today!! Whoot Whooot! And how very thankful I am for all those days truly. So I really do have Celiacs disease ha I know this because I ate about 12 or more I wasn't counting chocolate riesens and Steve was like Ashley those aren't GF and I was like ya they are look . I grabbed the bag and started looking over the ingredients and oops there was wheat in the ingredients! For Celiacs disease you cannot eat anything that has wheat, barley, rye, or oats in it. Pretty much everything that is good. So I was on and off the toilet all night haha  pretty fun ... NOT!! Anyways, everything is going dandy here just waiting for my new heart. Thank you for all the prays and love I truly feel each in every one of them so THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Wrigley was wondering who's bummed that there is NO snow on the ground this close to Christmas? He's not so happy about it.

Hey y'all I was thinking I would introduce you all to Gus my LVAD (left ventricular assist device) so I decided to make a video. So here it is... I have been feeling great since I have been out of the hospital this time. If I'm not bleeding I feel amazing like I can walk a mile and a half pretty easily because Gus is working good, but if I am bleeding somewhere I can definitely feel it. Ever since I have had Gus I've been bleeding so I haven't felt that great, but now I can feel Gus working for me for example, I can run up the stairs now:)  So keep your fingers crossed for no more bleeding please:)  Thanks to everyone for your prayers and thoughts I can truly feel them each and every day and I am very thankful for each one of them. 

I am HOME finally out of the hospital and baby it feels sooo good!!! My INR is 1.8 but my doctors decided to let me go home because that's all that I was receiving at the hospital was my Coumadin " warfarin " the drug that thins my blood. Anyways, I am home and very blessed to be sleeping on my bed not those crappy plastic ones at the hospital and my sweet baby Wrigley. Last date night in the hospital for awhile... keep your fingers crossed!  My loving friends- Kim, me, Jess, Scottie & Stephanie 😘