BACK FROM MY BLOOD LABS AT THE MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA; DAY ONE DONE...........

Noe and I departed the Hampton Inn, by the hotel shuttle, with their driver Nick, who I remember from the previous two years stay here at the hotel.  We arrived and were checked in for the twelve hours Fasting Blood Labs taken by 6:25 a.m., and were called and blood labs completed by there scheduled time of 6:50 a.m.  Unlike the twenty plus vials of blood drawn in 2009, and last year on day one of Evaluation, this morning the lab assisistant drew only eleven vials of blood from me.  That was my Mayo   testing for today, until returning tomorrow morning at 7:15 a.m., for the crucial Biopsy / Ultra Sound of donated kidney.  I called Victor Herrera, my living donor, at 7 a.m., and left him a thank you message of gratitude anew, on this second anniversary of the date we arrived here to have the kidney transplant performed, two days later.  We sat outside the Medical Specialty Building for more than a half hour waiting on the return of the shuttle, longer than usual, due to telephone difficulties reaching him.  Like his Hampton Inn colleagues, Nick our shuttle driver today is a very congenial and friendly person.  We arrived back in and went straight to the complimentary breakfast, this morning consisting of scrambled eggs, sauasages, fresh potato tots, wheat bread, a small raspberry danish, and coffee.  We have returned to our suite to chillax for a few hours, and Noe went back to sleep, until we decide in a few hours what more we want to do today.  Lunch, or 'Luinner', as I sometimes refer to it, between lunch and dinner today we be at the pub / restaurant, across the parking lot, The Tilted Kilt...........Fr.  Troy