Bottom Feeder
I shall remain at (or very near) the bottom of the UW Lung Transplant list for the foreseeable future. As you may recall, my transplant pulmonologist, Dr. Edelman, was appealing to UNOS to grant me an exception that would propel me to the top of this region's waiting list (into the 90th percentile). On June 28, I had my (fifth) right heart catheterization and Dr. Edelman was hoping that the results from that test would provide convincing and irrefutable evidence that I need new lungs. He wrote up the test results and waited to hear from UNOS. After about a week, they said no dice. He wrote up MORE information and after about a week, they again said no dice. Third time's not a charm this story; I still did not get the exception so I'm going to continue my glacial pace of waiting...and waiting...and waiting... (although, UW has really upped their pace of transplants this year: they've done 26 lung transp...