[Music] the transplant coordinator role begins after patients been referred to our program and insurance is cleared and then I start the process with a lot of education and helping patient start to navigate the process of going down an evaluation pathway and it can take several pass but we do a lot of testing and a lot a lot of education with patient and family a lot of things are happening to them and it's you know our job as coordinators to really help them and educate them on you know what to expect and that really helps to kind of clutch some of their fears and then on the post transplant side we are really trying to get them through the rigorous [Music] testing that they need to make sure that their graft is doing well to make sure they're tolerating of the different medications we have them on to make sure they're coping with everything they need to need to manage with other new medications they're on after transplant and that they themselves are mentally and physically doing well and then we help them manage any symptoms they do have after transplant I'm a registered nurse and what I do is I talk to all people who come forward to be a kidney donor to a loved one or a friend I ask them some questions over the phone do an intake form help them through the process I essentially become their person of contact their person to talk to just their overall person really at UVA on emotional level my patients are my extended family I have been in transplant from his seven years and I've done both pre and post transplant so the patients that I have I've literally had them since the day they walk in the door for the most part and I really do consider them family UVA is really their transplant family this is somebody that they're going to follow up for the rest of their life so it's not we're just going to come for to fix our arm and once the arms fixed not see we see them for the duration they really look to us as their guides and as someone that they can trust throughout this process I love being able to tell somebody you've been approved to be a donor especially when it comes to their loved ones they get very emotional and very excited about that I'm all about giving people a second chance in life and when I see somebody that was on death's door three weeks ago six months ago two years ago and watched them coming in or just hearing about how great they're doing and they got to hold their granddaughter or grandson or got to walk their daughter down the aisle it's just it's what I live for it just makes my day so that's why we do what we do