11. He went on a transplant list at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, the hospital that had treated Mickey Mantle. 12. He was taken off the transplant list. 13. In September, he was put on the cadaver kidney transplant list, meaning that he was scheduled to receive a kidney from a dead person. 14. In reassuring words, Klug told Payton how he was also on a liver transplant list, how everything would work out for both of them. 15. In the midst of this, Sharon Elimon was moved to the top of the transplant recipient list. 16. Nineteen months ago, Klug had worked his way up a liver transplant donor list, one uncomfortable notch at a time. 17. Nearly everyone else on the transplant list can tell a similar tale of progressive disability from congestive heart failure, of trying to buy time as drugs stop working. 18. Once she makes the transplant list, it could be up to six months before a match is found, according to Jackson Memorial Transplant Coordinator Debbie Weppler. 19. Payton is on a transplant list and will get no preferential treatment over less famous patients, according to his doctors. 20. She cited the case of a Maryland child who received a transplant in Florida within a week after being placed on a transplant list there. |