Steve received his official letter this week that he has been activated on the transplant list. The letter said he had 14 months of time already accumulated. It also said he would need to start sending blood once a month to the lab. They have to have a current blood drawn on file each month so when a kidney comes in that can do the matching. He is doing a nuclear er heart test this week. Same thing he had done a year ago just has to be updated. I don't think astronauts do this much testing. So I guess now we wait for a call that it is his turn to get a kidney.

Linda and Vickie have sent all there test results to St. Lukes and are waiting on a call from them to see what they think about possible donors. I did get on a website that was given to me by a case manager through my insurance and it gives you numbers for success rates for transplant centers in the United States. Very interesting. Midwest seems to have the shortest waiting time and KU and St. Lukes success rate is within 1% of each other. KU has done more kidney transplants but looks like both are good hospitals.

We are waiting for a call to tell us they have a kidney for Steve. Hoping and praying this happens this summer. Keep up the prayer support. Seems like a snail pace but we are making progress.

Steve & Christy