The Cookbooks

Family and friends are jumping in to help. They put together this wonderful cookbook to sell to help with the cost of Jared's liver transplant. They gathered 650 recipes and typed each one up. Sent them off for printing and we ended up with beautiful cookbook full of fabulous recipes from all our family and friends. Special thanks goes to those that helped type in recipes and proofread each one...twice. Also, there is much gratitude to those who submitted recipes and who are in full swing selling cookbooks so fast we will likely be sending for a second shipment soon, and the first one arrived only a day ago. You all know who you are. THANK YOU!

Cookbooks are $14 each + $3 shipping if you live outside of the Salt Lake City, Utah area.
Please contact Paulette if you would like to order a book, paulemay@msn.com Thank You!

Miles away????

Time for an update. So Jared had his apt. with the hepatologist yesterday. And we left feeling quite discouraged. The Dr. said he thinks the pains Jared has been having are his gallbladder and is doing some tests and looking at removing it now if it needs to be. He went over his chart and asked a bunch of lame questions...seriously, LOL. To sum it up he told us Jared is miles away from Transplant...."miles" what the heck does that mean?? The appt. took 2 1/2 hours and what we took from it was it is going to be a long time before they even consider listing him, and he scheduled our next clinic appt. for next May. I was annoyed and we were both a little upset when we left. Well I decided I wanted more answers so I called the transplant coordinator this morning. Long story short. Jared's MELD score jumped from a 10 last August to a 14 as of yesterday. They will list him at a 15. She said with a 14 they recheck the MELD every three months unless he gets really sick, then we can call them and they will check it. Patients usually get the transplant when the MELD reaches somewhere in the 20's. She is going to speak with the Dr. and let me know what the game plan is. So anyway I feel a little better now and I am not thinking it is going to be years away. On another note I am happy to tell everyone the cookbooks have been completed and shipped and should be here by Monday or Tuesday of next week YAY