If you missed Update #44 below, be sure to scroll down and check it out - good stuff!
That being said, because people have been asking about visiting Trent now that he is awake, our resident medical expert (and Trent's personal nurse when he is in Cincinnati) Ronda wanted to give some guidelines. Based on her experience and recommendations, the current request is that nobody aside from close family try to visit Trent until Jill returns from Cleveland. Her return will indicate that he has progressed out of any significant danger (and likely that he is out of the ICU) and that he may be able to see visitors for short amounts of time (knowing Trent, Jill will have to be the one to enforce the "short amounts of time." Poor guy hasn't been able to talk in months!).
Because of the immunosuppressive (anti-rejection) meds that Trent is on to prevent him from rejecting his new lungs as foreign bodies, he has no immune system right now. Not only does that put Trent at a HUGE risk for catching anything that visitors might be carrying, it also means that if Jill were to catch something, she wouldn't be able to visit him either. As time goes on, the risk for rejection and infection decreases, but especially during the initial weeks, the best way to protect Trent is to avoid visitors as much as possible.
As things change, we will keep the blog and Facebook updated on Trent's status and when he may be able to have visitors. Until then, just keep praying!
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