Correction

There was not any trauma on the new lung. The bleeding was comming from her chest cavity where the upper lobe of her 'old' lung had adhered to the cavity walls. When they peeled the lung out it was described to me as being similar to removing a scab - it bleeds like the dickens.

The pulmonology team all speak very highly of her new lung. Listening to them talk about this lung you would think they were discussing some high priced sports car. "Its a beautiful lung" were among some of the phrases I heard.

Cathy is doing much better. Of course she has a tremendous amount of pain at her incision site. She is very thirsty. She cannot have anything to drink until they are sure everything is OK and they will not have to send her back to the OR for any reason.