I have been bugging my Nephrologist for the past year and a half about when can I just get a transplant. You know if something is not working properly - why not fix it.

It doesn't work that way with getting a kidney transplant. There is a lot of testing and waiting and more testing and more waiting. 

On Thursday, July 20, 2017 my doctor looked at me and said "It is time". Okay maybe it wasn't that dramatic. But he did say "Congratulations, you can go for evaluation." He told me it wasn't urgent and not to freak out. He wrote the number to the transplant center on a piece of paper and passed it to me. I called the hospital the very next day to schedule the evaluation. I also immediately started to think of everyone and anyone that ever told me that they would consider being a living kidney donor.