Monday Monday.

Good morning everyone!

It's pretty dark and gloomy here in Madison this morning, but the little sprinkley rain didn't keep Katie and I from walking from the hotel to the hospital. She did great!...even though the hotel elevator was being serviced, so we had to walk down the stairs from the 3rd floor, not something we'd expected. Once we got to the hospital, we plopped Katie in a wheelchair (a very cute one that looks a lot like a grocery cart -- they even stack like grocery carts!) and scooted down to the cafeteria just in time to get some oatmeal for breakfast, before they switched over to lunch.

It looks like it may be raining harder out now, and every once in a while we hear what sounds like thunder (though it's possible that someone is just doing something awful to the dumpsters). The flowers are certainly adding a needed bit of cheer to the room today.

After a while, we're going to take a stroll down to the gift shop and the transplant center (so that we can see the wall of all of the live donors and get Katie's picture in front of it).

Katie's belly is still quite swollen from all of the abuse it has received, but the swelling is going down, so her clothes (that were quite loose before surgery) are fitting much better today.