One Small Step...

OK ... Keeping my fingers crossed once again. I spoke with my Transplant Coordinator two days ago. I told her that my lab results are greatly improved and asked if she would be willing to present it to the Transplant Team again. She immediately said she would, so I faxed her the three pages of lab work. It may be a week or two, or longer, before I hear back from UCSF...

So, once again, we are practically holding our collective breath and hanging on to hope. Since my testing, my friend has had one male donor whose blood test ruled him out immediately, one female donor who procrastinated so long on taking the first step of preliminary lab work that we finally realized that she did not want to participate and didn't seem to be able to say that to my friend.

Then another donor stepped forward, who immediately did his labs, and then got in an vehicle accident that perforated his spleen or something, and now he is out as a donor. And initially, my friend's sister went thru all the testing almost to the end when they found a problem with one of her kidneys, so she was ruled out, and that's when I stepped up... Whew ... what a long struggle, full of ups and downs of hope for my friend. Maybe this time we will succeed.