The update: UCLA wants me to have another right-left cardiac catheterization — an angiogram, basically — before they put me on the transplant list. Since having all those stents inserted, I’ve been on Plavix, a blood thinner, and I have to be off that medication for the transplant operation. A new cath procedure should reveal […]

The news from UCLA was generally good. They want to redo one test, however, before they list me. I’ll know more about that next week. In the meantime, my gratitude goes out to Buzz and Soon-ok Dixon, Art and Judy Ginsberg, and Donna Daves Kent, without whom this trip would have been far, *far* less […]