I may have posted before, but this May I am 11 years post transplant. I had several conditions before transplant. A hospital in Minneapolis dropped me during a blizzard on concrete covered ice and broke my T12 vertebra. Surgery was not an option. Many weeks at Mayo Rochester. After brace was removed I broke the ball in my hip. The surgery for that was much more dangerous then the liver transplant surgery 50/50. After another long stay home again. Finally the transplant surgery with hip stitches running up my side. It took a much longer stay that usual as my muscles had atrophied and I must have been terrified of falling. I was not the ideal patient. I can not thank Mayo Rochester enough for saving my life. It took a while to get any strength back, but I worked hard at accomplishing that. Every checkup for the last 10 years has been excellent. I look forward every year to going back, knowing how excellent the staff is.