Thanks Lynn. For me, I am flying home to my Wife, house and dogs. This past few years have been tough on me and my Wife. If you recall, we live in Northern California, but I work in Phoenix. This turned out to be a blessing since I was diagnosed in Phoenix and have an apartment just a few miles from Mayo. My Wife really took care of me during the surgery. She put her life on hold and flew out here to care for me for two month. While I won't make Thanksgiving, I am taking a week off around Christmas and flying home for 12 days! Now that I am 85% healed (in my mind) I intend to put her on a pedestal and thank her the whole time. I hope your holidays goes as well as the plan for mine!
Dave
P.S. My scar didn't really end up looking like a Mercedes logo, well maybe if it was in wreck. 🙂

After transplant, when my sense of humor returned, my husband told me that it would have been a lot easier to buy me a Mercedes!
Rosemary
FYI to non-liver recipients - The incision/scar from a liver transplant is often described as a Mercedes symbol because that is what it looks like:-)

@rosemarya

Sounds like a very elite crowd you are in!

Teresa

@rosemarya I questioned what mine was because it did not have the line going up. Turns out it’s a chevron, not a Mercedes! I told my surgeon I was crushed, this was my only chance to ever have a Mercedes. He of course chuckled. I googled the incision and it’s basically almost always simply a case of some surgeons prefer one over the other. I guess occasionally there are reasons but generally there are not.
JK

@contentandwell

Sorry to hear that you didn't make it into the elite "Mercedes" crowd, but you did provide me a smile for the day! Thanks for that,
Teresa

@hopeful33250 I gave my surgeon a smile too. My husband thinks he likes me because he thinks I am the surgeon’s star patient but I think he probably treats all of his patients that way, or he likes that I do get a bit humorous sometimes. Heck, he’s my surgeon but he’s also human and he’s not the type of doctor who thinks he’s a god.
JK

@contentandwell, You have described qualities of a truly great doctor! I also have several who easily qualify:-)
Rosemary

@rosemarya My surgeon is, as far as I am concerned, the absolute best. I really am happy with all the doctors I deal with at MGH, I so wish it was close enough for me to have my PCP there but both the main hospital in Boston and their satellite facilities are a minimum of an hour away and you have to allow more time for traffic. I do love my surgeon’s humor too. When I asked if I could go to Bermuda despite it being out of the country he said only if I took him. ;-). He has only been there two times, both very quick times there to harvest organs. He is head of the kidney transplant group at MGH but does liver too and from my recovery I would have to say he’s pretty darned good at livers.
JK

@contentandwell I'm sure he is good with liver transplants - he just needs to learn the Mercedes incision!

Teresa