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A businessman waiting in Omaha for a liver relocate is a big Alabama football fan — but he and his wife are also huge boosters of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
David Aresty, 54, said UNMC doctors saved his autobiography in 1989, and he believes they will do so again.
Over the past 23 years, he and wife Patti said, the three have referred close to 200 friends, acquaintances and others for treatment at the med center in Omaha.
"How else do we requite this place," David said, "other than to stand on a soapbox and bring people here?"
In the behindhand 1990s they also donated $500,000 toward UNMC's Lied Transplant Center, a give-away that David called a no-brainer and a "small endowment."
Their donation and their years of "recruiting," though, have had no germaneness on how soon he could receive a new liver.
"He has a lot of pull," University of Nebraska Founding Vice President Amy Volk said with a smile, "but not for organs."
As opposed to he has risen to the top of the liver-transplant list because he is very sick. The Arestys survive in northern New Jersey but decided to camp out in Omaha starting Nov. 1 so bad survive wouldn't delay them when they got the call that a liver was available.
Source: Omaha World-Herald