Originally Posted by CDTraveler

I'm going to approach this from the perspective of someone who worked on a transplant unit for more than a decade.

His life depends on getting an organ. So why the hell isn't he in St. Louis already?

Does he really, really, really understand how short the "shelf life" for a harvested organ is? And when the hospital says be here in 6 hours, they want you being prepped for surgery in 6 hours, not on a plane circling and hoping a gate opens up soon? If you'd said he was in Oakland and on a list in LA or Seattle, I can see trying to get there last minute, but St. Louis? How many non-stop flights are there per 24 hours?

The fact that he lives in a part of California where there are some of the top transplant programs in the world and he's on list so far away suggests a couple more things to me that I won't go into on a public forum, but all of which suggest that the best advice to him is not about flights, it's about rethinking why he's not putting himself in the best possible position to get the transplant that would save his life.