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Surgery and Recovery. If you are approved for the donation after all of the tests are completed, the surgery will be scheduled. The surgery is usually scheduled four to six weeks in advance. Typically, a living kidney transplant donor spends two days in the hospital, and will have an additional four to six weeks of recovery time. Donors who are from out of town should plan on spending an extra week in town after they discharged from the hospital. During recovery, you will experience some pain and discomfort.
Itâs extracted through a needle similar to the one used when donating blood, but the process has one important difference: When donating plasma, you get your blood back. Thousands of dollars worth of equipment pumps your blood out of you, separates the plasma from the blood, and returns the red stuff back to your body. Because the process is more involved than donating blood, it usually takes an hour, but lucky for you, youâre compensated for the time spent there.