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@rosemarya

@gphetteplace - Gaylene, Congratulations on receiving your liver transplant. Your generosity is commendable, and it sounds as if you are doing very well with your new liver.
I had not heard of the airbnb.org, so I looked it up. My observation is that the focus, currently, is on larger scale crisis situations. However, I did see that there is mention of providing lodging during long individual medical treatment. Do you know whether that approach is available currently?

I was fortunate to stay at the Gift of Life House at Mayo in MN for aprox 13 weeks. I see that the Mayo AZ has The Village at Mayo Clinic, an on-site hospitality house that provides a low-cost, extended-stay lodging option for families of out-of-town patients who are receiving transplant or long-term cancer treatment. During the transplant evaluation process, the transplant social workers offer information for housing for those coming a long distance.

Gaylene, Have you communicated with anyone at airbnb or about your desire? What would you have to do to be qualified/approved?

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Hi Rosemary! I haven’t yet. I’m hoping there’s a preference you can set for who you host, but i haven’t gone far enough in the registration to find out. I was hoping for some feedback first. I think the Mayo hospitality house is ideal, but it looks really small for the number of transplants they do here. What do patients/families do if it’s booked? We have two bedrooms and a nursery/toddler room so we could host a family. Does the hospitality house support that? I realize now how blessed we are to live so close. Would like to do what we can to help someone else.