Hi @tony102256
My wife had her surgery in Milwaukee, WI at Froedtert Hospital this past January. Our circumstances were different than yours needing to get to Mayo by plane once you got the call. We were given only 5 hours (we lived 1 hr from hospital) to get to the hospital, as donor liver was from an individual that had been on life support. As craigcraig mentioned in our pretraining the "gobag" was highly recommended to be ready to go. Regarding your questions, 1. I was taken to Family Center where we could get texts on the update during my wife's surgery. I kept the gobag by me until the surgery was completed. 2. My wife's surgery took about 4.5 hours, with no complications till later in the week after the surgery, but the transplant went as planned. We were told about 4-6 hours depending how everything goes at each step. As Colleen mentioned, we are all here to help you Tony. Please let us know what other questions you may have. You got this, we got you!