@marvinjsturing safe driving! Patience with the technicians and relief when it's all done! Then the waiting starts. We're right there for you.
Ginger

@marvinjsturing we will all be thinking about you and saying prayers, particularly those of us who have traveled this journey. I will be looking forward to hearing how everything goes.

As @retiredteacher commented, that call will come when you least expect it, or at least it did for me, two months sooner than expected.
JK

Just got home this afternoon. While my sister was being evaluated for a stem cell transplant at University of Wisconsin, I was being evaluated for a kidney transplant at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha. Yesterday was the big day. We arrived at the hospital at 6:15 AM, had 11 appointments and left around 4:00 PM. I was scheduled for 6 appointments today, but my transplant coordinator talked to the kidney doctor and explained that I had an echocardiogram and a heart stress test done at Mayo last summer. He looked at the reports from those tests and cancelled my tests at Nebraska Medicine. They then rescheduled my remaining tests for earlier in the day, so we were on our way home by 10:30 AM. The transplant committee meets next Thursday and my transplant coordinator said she would call me on Friday to tell me the results of that meeting. The current wait time for a kidney at Mayo is 3 to 7 years. I have been on Mayo's list for about 1 1/2 years. The current wait time at Nebraska Medicine is 1 to 3 years. Having a living donor would change the wait time to 2 to 4 months instead of years. At this time, to my knowledge, I have no one working on becoming a living donor.