I have some good news too...turns out my would-have-been recipient is not suffering from severe heart failure, as was thought a few weeks ago. The dialysis machine/nurses calculations were incorrect, she had gained a few pounds of real body weight (not fluid weight) so they were taking off WAY too much fluid every time she was dialysed. That is what caused her heart troubles and extremely low blood pressures.
As for the other horrible news, I may not be able to donate the kidney after all of this. I have been feeling sick recently and I have had swollen lymph nodes in my neck for some time now. I went to get a second opinion (I didn't want an infection delaying the surgery), and the doctor found lymph nodes in my neck on both sides, and on the back of my neck, above my collar bone, in my elbow and in my groin, as well as an enlarged spleen and signs of compression of my superior vena cava. Some blood work and a chest x-ray later, and the good doc tells me I have cancer. Probably lymphoma, however a biopsy is needed to confirm the diagnosis. I see another doctor on Tuesday and will hopefully be able to find out when the biopsy will be. I am hoping that the doctor was wrong, that I just have mono, or a strange infection or something. I don't know how I will tell my recipient about this...she has been so excited, she's started counting down the days until she gets her new kidney....this is just awful.