Becky
Any time is a good time to donate . You will make someone's life change .This is a great selflessness thing that a person can do. Thank you so much & from what I've read & been thru it can be done.

Thank you. I spoke with my primary physician about donating my body to science & he spoke to me about becoming a donor via my drivers license. That is when I realized I truly want to meet the recipiant.

@kellysmith1215
Even though I have not been approved as an donor yet perhaps we (you & I) are the match you have been waiting for.

Day 2, I received a call back from the FL clinic requesting I feel out the online application "Health Questionnaire" which I did yesterday. Hopefully I will be accepted as an O+ donor.

@beckyjohnson my first transplant experience was in 2003 at the U of MN. My father-in-law needed a kidney. My daughter ended up being his living kidney donor. At that time she was a 19 year old college student. She completed her pretransplant evaluation in March during her spring break and they had their transplant surgery in early April that year. (Both of them were at my house under my care and keeping during that journey.) My daughter missed a week or two of school after surgery but profs & friends were very accommodating for her to keep up from my house. She went back to school in April, finished the school year and began a grueling summer job. My point is, much of the journey involves “hurry up and wait” but things can move quickly once you go through the hoops. Did you clear the health questionnaire and have you been able to move on to donor evaluation scheduling? As you do that there will be more waiting involved before you find out the final answer. If you get the go ahead, it will be doable!

@cehunt57 Yes I did clear the donor questionair. My transplant coordinator is working on getting the 24 hour blood pressure cuff... which I think will be sent to me. She is also working on getting back to back 3 days of testing the last week in June. Your daughter is a very brave & loving lady to give up a kidney at such a young age. What a blessing she is - an earth angel for sure.

@beckyjohnson yes I agree, but I am biased. That was 15 years ago. Now I have CKD and will be needing a kidney. That girl already donated one to her grandpa but she contacted Mayo wondering if she could donate part of her liver to someone on my behalf in exchange for a kidney for me! She was trying to take the paired donation exchange principal to a whole new level and thinking outside of the box! It was a good and generous intention but is not how they roll at Mayo. There are reasons why Mayo deems this would not be a good option. So this daughter of mine is 34 now, has completed college & grad school. Has worked/is working at various careers, is married, is mom to 3 of my granddaughters and is currently attempting to launch an endeavor to be a surrogate mom for a couple that can’t have a child biologically! She is a testimony of what can be done by a living kidney donor.

@cehunt57 MY GOODNESS SHE REALLY IS AN ANGEL ON EARTH! Everything we take for granted from the wheel to deep sea/ outer space travel, from industrial agriculture to modern medicine began with someone thinking outside of the box. This often came at the expense of that person being considered crazy if not insane. The cream always rises & hindsight is 20/20. Your girl is a miracle because hearts like that are greater than one in a million.