They found the blood!

I was informed last week that my blood was found by the Ottawa Hospital - but the lab that does the testing was closed (why?) but my contact hoped that there was enough cells in each vial to use for testing.

A week later I have not heard back, so I am presuming all is ok.

Apparently, hospitals are closing their blood testing units, and outsourcing it to these labaratories who don't always know or follow the procedure when it comes to taking blood for potential transplant patients.

I will contact Ottawa one more time today, and hopefully the tests went well and I should heard within 10 days! Fingers crossed .

Blood for tissue testing

On Tuesday afternoon, I got a phone call for obtain a "final" blood test for Pam but it had to be done Wednesday - a little bit short notice.

On Wedneday I went to the clinic, and had a fair bit of blood taken. This blood is kept at room temperature and tested against Pam's to see how compliant we are ...

On Thursday Ottawa Hospital called ... where was the blood? No one has called back to say a.) if they found or b.) if a match was done!

On Friday, had a vasectomy so other things were on my mind