Step 2: First Round of Testing

With the first round of testing you have to complete a few things:

1. 24 Hour Urine Collection: I did this on July 24th. For a full 24 hours you have to collect every drop of urine and needs to be kept refrigerated. Once the 24 hours is up, you need to go into the lab to turn it in and complete blood work. With this urine collection they are testing for:

• Urine Protein Levels
• Urinalysis with reflex to culture
• Mircoalbumin
• Creatinine Level clearance
• Beta-HCG 

2. Blood Work: I did this on July 25th. You will get a lot of vials of blood taken. They are testing a lot of things....

• Uric acid, serum or plasma
• Phosphorus, inorganic, plasma or serum
• Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) level
• PT, International normalized ratio
• PTT
• CBC with PLT count and auto diff
• Comprehensive metabolic panel
• Magnesium, plasma or serum
• Lipid panel
• Cystatin C
• Glycosylated hemobglobin level
• Aborh manual

Don't ask me what those mean, it's just what my medical records showed the tested for.

3. Glucose Test: You will receive a blood glucose test. The kind where you drink a little bottle of what tastes like flat sprite, wait 2 hours and come back and do another urine sample.

 

4. Attend an over the phone Donor Class: They send you a PowerPoint presentation regarding the process of donating, the evaluation, testing, surgery, recovery, risks, etc. This class is held weekly and is about 1 hour. You are on a conference call with other people who are donating and able to ask questions.

 

5. See your Gynecologist: Make sure that you don't have any cancer on your reproductive organs. My gynecologist also checked out my thyroid and thought it was enlarged and/or had something on it. When my records of this visit were sent to the team at the University of Utah they told me that I had to get the thyroid issue taken care of before they could proceed with any testing. Annoying.. but understandable. My gynecologist ordered for more blood work to be done, which I did and the tests results came back normal so I was able to continue with testing. Delayed the testing about 2 weeks.

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