Check List

Lets get back to the transplant story-

Since my husband made up his mind that he would donate part of his liver to his father, the real "fun' began. He now had to go through many tests and appointments to see if his liver was compatible. The appointments began in October 2005 and continued until January 2006.

The tests my husband had to go through first was-
Blood type match (this is the very first test)
Physical from his primary doctor
Blood tests to see if there are any illnesses my husband was not aware of (Cancer, HIV, Diabetes, Hepatitis and any other type of infection that would not be good to give the donor)

Then after the clinic receives these results, he had to go to the Clinic for these tests-
Physical from his liver team doctor
Psychiatric evaluation
Blood Tests
Liver Scans for size and mass
Liver scan to see where his veins would cut ok with none curving in a weird way
Liver scan to see that he would be able to donate enough at the natural incision line (he would donate the right lobe of his liver, but in the picture its on the left hand side, the larger half)

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And while my husband was going to Boston for all of these tests on different days, my father-in-law was still going to Boston for his monthly check-ins with the doctors. Oh, we have many miles on our cars going back and forth to Boston.

The weird this was, even through they live in the same house, we passed the information to my husband and vise versa, but a nurses still had to call him and tell then the official results from tests and appointments.