A missed flight connection almost prevented Efren Carranza from receiving a kidney transplant. But a phone conversation between his doctor and an airline employee changed everything.
A trip to the doctor's office for Efren Carranza is less dreadful today than it had been for the last six years when he started experiencing kidney failure.
A trip to the doctor's office for Efren Carranza is less dreadful today than it had been for the last six years when he started experiencing kidney failure. Carranza said, "It's such a drastic change. You go from being ok to being sick all of a sudden. Your life just falls apart." Shortly after that, Carranza was put on an organ transplant waitlist and started dialysis three times a week.
Last year, he was in Hermosillo, Mexico celebrating Mexican Independence Day when he got the call from Providence St. Joseph's Hospital that there was a match for a kidney transplant.kidney and pancreas program at Providence St. Joseph's Hospital"We're on the clock," Dr. Qazi said "We have to let the organ procurement agency know within a very short time if we're going to take it or not. Efren just stepped it up. He's like, 'No, no, no. I will come back.
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