Stanford Trip Two

A few hours ago, we arrived home after a quick trip to Stanford University. The purpose was for a couple of tests, to meet some other doctors, and hopefully get on the list for a transplant.

We will have to wait a bit longer for an answer to getting on the list.

At that point, we will have to decide whether we move to California to wait out the call for a new heart/lung or are we able to stay here until we get that call.

We left last Sunday and had a long drive to Redding, CA. From there it was about a four-hour drive on  Monday morning to Stanford for our first appointment at 1:00PM, which was a CT scan of my chest, lungs and abdomen.

We then drove back to San Fran to stay with Arnie. We had a great dinner that night with Arnie and his daughter, Rebecca at a Tai food place whose name was unpronounceable.

We had more appointments the next day and again on Wednesday, at which point we were finished. I decided to hit the road for the trip home and try to get to Bend, Oregon on the first leg of the trip.

The only mishap was getting rear ended on Monday morning just south of Redding.

We were looking for a place to gas up and picked an exit that turned out to have no gas stations. At the stop sign at the end of the exit ramp, Susan stopped and checked the traffic coming from her left. The sun was just up and very low in the sky, making it hard to see the traffic. She moved up a bit more and stopped. That's when Andrea bumped into us. 

It was a very low speed bump that caused a little impression in our bumper and slightly mis-shaped the bottom of the rear lift gate.

She was very sorry and upset and we exchanged information.

I finally called her insurance company on Friday and made the report. It was quite an ordeal involving lots of questions from an agent, more of the same questions on-line, and then more of the same questions on Susan's behalf, since she was the driver.

The only thing missing was a bunch of 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a full explanation of what each one was on the back to be used as evidence against us. Or in this case for us.

And that's not true either. We took plenty of photographs.

Now we wait to see what happens next.