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@nianyi

Fair enough. . . I don't know that he's spoken specifically with his team about distance and how far is reasonable, just about going out of town in general. I feel confident on OUR end about out ability to pull it off and get there as fast as we can. I'm more concerned about the likelihood of the hospital skipping over us when a kidney comes up because of how far away we are. I've been told by one hospital -- and likely they're all like this -- that that certainly can happen, depending on the situation with that particular kidney. It may be that its viability would be diminished if they waited for someone far away to get there. So, if for example in the Arizona case if it took us 10 hours from the time we got that phone call to get to the hospital, are we significantly lowering our chances of even getting the call to begin with? Can you give me an average of how long the hospital needs the patient there from the time of the call? I wouldn't be harping on this if I wasn't so interested in the Mayo Clinic in Arizona 🙂 (BTW, I've called and spoken to about 25 facilities, so this doesn't come without a good bit of research).

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@Gianni In my husband's case, he was first called at midnight, then a second call at 7:30am to abstain from eating rest of the day. In that call they said organ harvest would begin at 4:30pm. The call to "come on in" was at 7pm. At that point he drove from Los Angeles to San Diego in record time.
Ginger

@nianyi for my husband's liver transplant we were told that we needed to be able to get to the hospital in under 10 hours. I don't know what the time frame is for a kidney.
Blessings,
JoDee