@marvinjsturing I will have you in my thoughts and prayers. I know the waitlist for kidneys is very long. My niece's husband was on dialysis for five years and finally had a transplant in August. He is doing fabulously now.

You don't mention where you live but I hope you do keep looking at transplant centers to find out where the shortest waits are, as long as they are at excellent transplant centers. When I was first a candidate for a liver transplant at Mass General in Boston they told me right up front that other regions would probably be able to transplant me sooner and mentioned a couple of good ones. I did some research too and was about to list at my second choice, Mayo, because they felt they could transplant me sooner than MGH could. Of course having the transplant close to home made MGH my first choice -- I live in southern NH and MGH is also very highly rated. I was able to get a transplant there at the same MELD that Mayo thought they could transplant me at.
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