ASHLAND When the call came, Becki Younce admits, she let it go to voicemail.
In was around 5 p.m. Monday, and she had just arrived home after taking her 16-year-old daughter, Ashlee, to Akron for dialysis.
Ashlee had been placed on a waiting list to receive a kidney transplant from a deceased donor in January 2020 because of end-stage renal failure. For months, they had traveled to Akron Children s Hospital three times a week for dialysis an hour to get there, four hours at the hospital and another hour home. I thought it was an appointment reminder, because we were supposed to meet with a doctor in Cincinnati for a Zoom meeting on Tuesday, Younce said. She was on the phone, paying some bills, so she didn t answer. When the phone rang again five minutes later, she thought maybe the appointment was being canceled.