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May 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Waiting on a Liver No More
It was 8 p.m. in Rochester, Minn. when Gordon Karels got the phone call — the one every organ transplant patient hopes for.
“There’s a liver,” his surgeon told him over the phone.
Two hours later the Mayo Clinic called back with an update. It was a go.
Click on the video player to watch Gordon’s story.
As Karels rushed to the hospital for pre-surgery preparation, Mayo Clinic’s transplant team was already in a plane, on their way to an undisclosed location where the organ donor was about to give Karels and his family a new lease on life.
For 15 years, Karels, a finance professor at the University of Nebraska, was able to manage his liver disease. He and his wife, Earla, made routine trips to the Mayo Clinic from their home in Lincoln, Neb., but then, this past January, his condition worsened.
“He started getting much sicker, fever, losing weight,” Earla Karels said. “He looked extremely different in just 2 months time,” she recalled. “The yellow jaundice, the weight loss.”
The family and doctors considered the possibility of living donors. His younger sister, Jan, was hoping she would be able to be the donor but her liver was not the right match.
Karels was officially put on the transplant list last month. Just two days later — an unusually short waiting period — he got the call.
After hours in the waiting room, Dr. Julie Heimbach emerged from the operating room to tell his family, “things went well.”
“It was perfect,” Heimbach said. “This liver is already working, I can tell, its making bile, doing the job we expect.”
“His old liver was a pretty terrible-looking liver so we got that out,” she added.
That evening, Karels was already sitting up in a chair. By the next day he was up walking around, already feeling better, albeit with some stomach pain.
“This is about as good as it gets for a transplant situation and I feel really lucky it worked out,” he said. “I’m certainly most appreciative to the family, when one life ends to extend another. That’s probably the best gift you can give anyone.”
Earla Karels could not stop smiling as she looked at her husband the day after surgery.
“We benefited from someone who made a really generous decision,” she said. “How do you thank someone for such a big gift. I hope we get the opportunity.”
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