In February, Iowa City hospitals put my blood and Denise's in a petre dish together. The object is to see if Denise's blood has built up antibodies to mine. Apparently after extended periods of cohabitation, people build up anti-bodies to the other persons germs. If Denise has too many anitbodies, then the chances that her body would reject my kidney are much greater.
The results of that test were negative. Meaning that her blood had only a minor reaction to mine (Guess she likes me more than I thought).
With that test out of the way, Iowa City wants me to come down for a full days worth of test and pre-donor screening work up. Essentailly, determine if I am healthy enough to with stand transplant surgery. Make sure that I can actually do without a kidney. Verify that I do not have any infectous diseases. These sort of things. That day of testing is April 7th, 2010.
Once they have the results from the tests, then we can begin to set timelines for the pre transplant and transplant activities.
Will let you know more as we learn it.
As always, thank you for your support.
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