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04/10

Thank you for dropping me a note! This site does not alert me my messages or emails for some reason. We are fine here, how are you? Thank God all is stable. How have you been? -say

IAmTheWalrus

12/09

Oops! No such thing as a MELS score, make that a MELD score.

IAmTheWalrus

12/09

Hi. Hope I am not being too forward in this, but I noticed you are a possible transplant candidate. I had TP due to HCV complicated by cirrhosis in 2006. I am guessing you have a lot of questions. I found a lot of answers about donor organ allocation in the U.S. on the UNOS site as well as lots of data on the transplants done at each center with regards to MELS score, age, location, blood type, etc. I found the info very useful and hope you do as well. I would be happy to be of any help I can. Here's the link. See section 3.6 (I think): http://www.unos.org/policiesandbylaws/policies.asp?fromPage=Policy

Veteran1

12/09

Thanks for the positive words, Stonewall. Yes, I believe in "Improvise, adapt, overcome" words that I learned in the Army. I like that you've added "persevere" to that. I am determined to last for a while longer and help my kids. Being 60 years old now (I'm 43 years older than my daughter) I have accepted that life is limited. I will feel better knowing that she is fully independent and capable of caring for herself and my grandson. Tests I took at the VA hospital in Bay Pines, near St Pete, Florida, have shown that I'm no in the early stages of liver failure. That *****, but I've come to terms with my fate. I really hope to get on the transplant list and get lucky enough to receive a liver, but if it doesn't happen I've accepted my fate.

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