Update:

Having determined that he was indeed a match through additional blood tests yesterday afternoon, GJ went into surgery at 4:30 for the Kidney transplant. All we know of the donor is that they gave both kidneys and the doctor who worked on GJ performed both transplants. He was out of surgery around eleven p.m. and things seemed to have gone well, when GJ began to bleed excessively. He went back into surgery at twelve thirty and took four pints of blood before he was stabilized. He is now in full recovery, though still in the ICU. I just got off the phone with Vick and she reports that he is happily eating a cheeseburger, so that would seem to be a very good sign. Myrna, his mother, and her sister are flying in from the Philippines on Sunday and the sister will serve as a backup donor should there be tissue rejection.