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MY NAME IS WALTER WORRALL AND I AM WRITING THIS LETTER FOR ME AND MY WIFE TO ALL WHO MAY BE CONCERNED MY SON DENNY JR HAD A LIVER DISEASE WHICH THROUGH AN ATTEMPTED LIVER TRANSPLANT HAD PASSED AWAY.OUR CONCERN IS ABOUT THE PROGRAM,THAT THE MELD SCORE HAS TO BE AT A SCORE OF 40 BEFORE THEY ARE EVEN LISTED FOR A TRANSPLANT. WHICH BEING AT THIS LEVEL THE PATIENT IS VERY SICK AND WEAK AND THEIR CHANCES OF SURVIVING THE TRANSPLANT ARE NOT AS GOOD AS IF THE MELD SCORE WAS LOWER, THEIR CHANCE OF SURVIVAL IS MUCH GREATER.THIS PROGRAM IS CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,AND THE PATIENT HAS TO WAIT FOR AN ORGAN MATCH TO BE TRANSPLANTED. MY CONCERN IS WHEN THE PATIENT HAS TO WAIT SO LONG FOR A ORGAN THE PATIENT IS GETTING SICKER AND THEIR CHANCE TO SURVIVE THE TRANSPLANT IS MUCH LESS. WHAT CAN WE DO AS A NATION TO POSSIBLY CHANGE THIS PROGRAM, SO MORE PEOPLE CAN BE SAVED THROUGH LIVER TRANSPLANTS. THIS PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE CHANGED SO THAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION HAS THE CONTROL OF THESE PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT. THIS WAY THE PROGRAM CAN BE BETTER AND THE PATIENT MORE HEALTHIER AND HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SURVIVING THE TRANSPLANT. OUR CONCERN ABOUT OUR SON IS THAT HE HAD LOW BLOOD PRESSURE BEFORE THE TRANSPLANT ATTEMPT AND WHY WAS THE ATTEMPT MADE IF HIS BLOOD PRESSURE WAS NOT AT A GOOD STABLE LEVEL BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE TRANSPLANT.BECAUSE OF THIS AN INFECTION AT THE TIME OF HIS TRANSPLANT HAD LOWERED HIS BLOOD PRESSURE AT A FATAL LEVEL AND THE TRANSPLANT HAD TO BE ABORTED AND COULD NOT BE DONE. HE GOT SICKER THROUGH THE ATTEMPT AND PASSED AWAY. SO THIS IS OUR CONCERN IF WE AS A NATION STAND TOGETHER AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT HAVING MORE ORGANS AND MORE ORGAN DONORS AND LOWER MELD SCORES THAT FUTURE PATIENTS DONT HAVE TO FACE THIS PROBLEM AND CAN BE CURED WHEN THEY ARE NOT SO SICK. MAYBE THIS STAND COULD MAKE ORGAN DONORS IN THE FUTURE BE A MANDATORY PRIORITY. THANK YOU