When Adam had another appointment in St. Louis on March 2nd for his kidney testing to see if he can be put on the transplant list, they did a DNA test on him to see if there is something genetic that is causing him to get so many kidney stones, because that is what wrecked his kidneys so bad. He was getting a lot of stones, and they grew really fast. He had a DNA test done before with Ancestry.com, but that doesn't tell you things like that. This test will. I can't wait to find out the results!
What could possibly be genetic though, that would cause this to happen? And if the results come back with something positive, does that mean we might want to have Tricity checked, too? Could she be a carrier? And then how about her children?
While he was there, they also took more blood since his last blood was tainted with the hepatitis B vaccine. This time he tested negative for that. He said they had a scale from 1 to 100 of people trying to qualify for a kidney, with 1 being the best, and 100 the worst, and they told him he was about a 6, which means (other than his bad kidneys), he is really healthy and is extremely close to being someone who would qualify for a transplant first. At first I thought - oh no, if he's too healthy, they might want to give it to someone more desperate first! But then I remembered how they said they are more likely to give one to someone who won't waste it, who will survive it, and who will take care of it. If he were someone who went out drinking and smoking, they would be less likely to give him one. But because he doesn't live that way, that makes him more qualified to be higher up on the list.
Anyway, if anything comes out of this DNA test, I'll be sure to let you guys know!
