We will be traveling back to Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA on January 7-8. I had my first evaluation there in August of 2007 and they are GREAT. I still don't know all of the tests that they will be performing during this visit, but I should receive my itinerary soon. Stanford has one of the top kidney transplant programs in the world. People travel internationally for their superior steroid-free protocol transplant program. I really like my dialysis nurses at Childrens Hospital in Aurora, CO (Ok, most of them, anyway), but I hope to one day, before I turn 18 (hopefully), get my kidney transplant at Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford. I have visited several other hospitals and Stanford is my favorite.  This is very fortunate, because although I have good medical insurance and Childrens Hospital in Aurora, CO is the only Childrens Hospital in an 8 state region that performs dialysis and kidney transplants for those of us under 18, my dialysis is covered by the insurance company, but my kidney transplant would not be covered at Childrens Hospital. My mom says that I am a million $ kid, but she can't afford $500,000 for a kidney transplant that wouldn't be covered by insurance. This is one of the reasons we checked out various out of state hospitals.  I will update you with more information as it becomes available.

I beeped a lot today in dialysis, which is a bad thing.  They closed my lines with more heparin so hopefully I will run more smoothly on Monday.  Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting my website.

-Jaclyn