Many hospitals will allow pre-surgical patients to come in earlier than that, providing they haven’t been recently transfused. Either way, it’s no big deal - usually the testing required to set blood up on a person takes about an hour. Unless you have freaky antibody-laced blood, of course. Then the pressure’s on! But I love a challenge. 
Good luck and please post soon about how it all went!
Good Luck!! Hope it all goes smoothly.
Not a switch hitter, huh?
Woo hoo, crappy kidney begone! Do you think they will let you bring it home in a jar?
Best of luck to you, and a swift recovery. It sounds like you have the right attitude!
Ewwwwww. I’ll tell you what: if they do give it to me to bring home, I’ll send it to you, 'k? 
Thanks for all the good thoughts, guys. I’m trying real hard not to freak out, and knowing I have a whole crew of people pulling for me really helps! (Of course, so does my Xanax, but moral support doesn’t make me drowsy! )
Huh. I think I know the seated guy. Your doc looks kinda (to me) like Jason Bateman who I find not at all unappealing.
I’m a pray-er, and now you’re on my list. Best wishes, too.
Good luck! I hope the surgery and recovery goes amazingly smoothly.
y’know, I never consciously thought about the Jason Bateman angle, but now that you mention it. . .well, thanks for ruining that for me, since I find Jason Bateman extremely icky since I saw Juno.
Nah, what am I saying? I’ll still adore the doctor. He’s adorable and charming.
As for the prayers, thanks! I really, really do appreciate all of 'em (prayers, good vibes, good thoughts, chicken-swinging, whatever; I’m a theist, myself, and I’ll take all the positive power I can get!)
Supergoose, thanks. I’m not as worried about the surgery as I am about the recovery. I’ve had lots of surgeries (too many!), but after the last couple of years, I’m a little skittish about them. See, a couple of years ago, I had a complete abdominal hysterectomy. Unfortunately, it seems I was allergic to the stitches that the doc used internally! That left me with a non-healing wound. More surgery was required to dig all the infected stitches out! (Some of them were infected with MRSA! :eek: ), which left me with a wound that I had to go to the wound clinic several times weekly to heal. Now, it’s finally healed, but it seems to have left me with a hernia that will, after the kidney is taken care of, need more surgery. . .
You can see why I might be a little hinky, right? Oh, and add to all that: in the past four years sometime, I’ve developed a pretty serious allergy to all surgical adhesives. Ugh.
Sometimes the only way I get through the day is by reminding myself that a lot of people have much worse problems than I have!
You’ve had lots of surgeries? :dubious: Are you sure you are still you? You might actually be a complete replacement.
In any case my best wishes for your speedy recovery.
Well, don’t think of me as a car that’s had a lot of replacement parts, so much as a car that’s just had lots of it’s original equipment removed! So far, I’ve had no ‘replacements’; nothing’s been put in, only taken out!
My husband likes to joke that by the time I finally get a tummy tuck, what with the fact that I’m missing:
80% of my stomach
30% of my intestines
my gall bladder
all my female internal organs
and now, a kidney
I can get a 19" waist if I want one; after all, it’s not like I need space in there for anything!
bwuh? What, are they afraid you’ll switch teams in the interim? switch from an O-neg to an AB-pos or something if they give you time? Weird.
Where will the surgery be done? WV? Cumberland? Bal’mer?
Oh, and are you still hanging around with that VAC or did that wound finally shut up and quit yelling at you?
Like I said, I don’t understand the time limit for a cross and match. It doesn’t seem like my blood type would change!
I’m having the surgery in Cumberland, because I’ve had the same urologist there for about five years now. He’s removed quite a number of stones from me, and treated me for others (as well as infections). A friend of mine in Cumberland is a cardiologist, and my urologist was on a panel one afternoon with said cardiologist. Cardiologist’s wife got to hear my urologist speak, and was impressed with him. That’s probably a pretty good reference. 
Really, I’ve had four urologists over the past 20 years, and I think this guy is the best of them. I trust him, I know him, he knows me, and he knows my kidneys. He started talking around four years ago about the right kidney going eventually, but he wanted to wait until he was sure it was really the best course of action.
As for the wound vac, long gone. The wound is healed. Unfortunately, the surgery that ultimately enabled that wound to heal seems to have caused a hernia, which will mean more surgery eventually. . .sigh.
Oh well. Not gonna worry about that now. Right now, I’m going to focus on getting the kidney out and recovering from that.
I hope everything goes well. You’ll be in my thoughts!
Thanks, statsman! From your join date, it doesn’t look like you’ve been here very long, so you probably don’t know much about who I am. But believe me, all good thoughts are much appreciated!
I meant to say he looks like Michael Bluth. That Juno guy is totally creepy.
I had to IMDB ‘Michael Bluth’ to get the joke.
For me, this is the worst time. The night before. A mixture of please hurry and get here (and get it over with) and OMG, I can’t believe it is here already!
Good luck! Heal quickly.
Break a leg, Norinew.
The night before my gastric bypass, I wasn’t uptight at all. We had just moved 2 weeks before, and I wanted to get the last of the unpacking and settling done before surgery, because I knew I had a 2 week long 15 lb lifting restriction. I was too busy working my butt off to get uptight.
I’ll be thinking good thoughts tomorrow!
Will be thinking of you, hope everything goes well.
Prayers and good vibes on their way.