It Happened, Finally! We have a new liver.

  Just when we began to wonder if we would ever get the new liver it came. Sunday night, September 15th, at 9:11PM. The phone rings and it's an LDS Hospital number pops up. We are on stand-by, again! It was the 9th time we had been put on stand-by. At 10pm we just figured we will go to bed and see what happens. I had just turned off the TV and the lights around 10:30PM. It was about 10:50PM and the phone rings. Eldon and I had made an agreement if the hospital called and said to come in that he would point at the bathroom so I could hurry and take shower. So he starts pointing and I looked at him and said "Seriously?" It was our turn and the liver was coming from out of state. We were to come to the hospital immediately.
  I called Heather, #1 daughter, and told her to call her siblings and to meet us at the hospital. We arrived in the parking lot at 11:23PM. We made our way to the 10th floor. Everything seemed to be happening so fast. My thoughts running through my head of how this journey began and where would it take us. I knew I had to be positive and have my emotions in control. Eldon was so scared, I couldn't act stupid now. My Mom use to say, pull up your boot straps..do what needs to get done and when it's all over you can fall apart then. She was right.
   When we walked up to the nurse's desk and she asked how she could help us we told her we were the Augers and here for Eldon's transplant. Her eyes widened and her lips parted in surprise. She said he was the healthiest looking transplant patient she had ever seen. It one of those hurry up and wait things. We were taken immediately to a room, then lab work, IV, Chest Xray, EKG, then they did something they had not done before. The nurse shaved his chest hair and had him do this Hibiclens scrub. Oh good heck! this is the real thing. It's going to happen. In the back of my mind I still had this lingering doubt. Maybe they would walk in and say 'sorry, liver went else where". I mean it had happened before, numerous times before. All the paperwork was signed, the PA, Kristi, came in and went over all the details and what was going to happen. Finally, at 4AM the surgical transport person showed up to take him to surgery.
   Heather had met us there and Corey was called. It was really happening. He made it from Vernal about a half hour before Eldon was taken to surgery. We said our good-byes and we will see you later. He had tears in his eyes and that really upset me. He went to surgery and we went to the waiting room.
I will write more later, right now I have some things that I need to take care of. Thanks for reading.