Neil Sheridan

Neil Sheridan was in the hospital waiting to receive a multi-organ transplant.

History
At some point in the past, Neil had a bowel resection which led to short gut syndrome. He was on TPN after that, which caused his liver to fail, leaving him in need of a multi-organ transplant, including his small intestine, large intestine, stomach, pancreas, and liver. He twice had transplants not go through.

When Richard came to him to said that there was a set of organs available for him, he was doubtful that it would go through and so didn't ask his family and friends to come to the hospital, because they had come to the two previous surgeries.

There was a snag in the transplant when a tumor was found on the donor liver. However, Richard believed that the tumor was benign and wanted to biopsy it to confirm. Mark, who was acting as chief for the day, denied the request. In defiance of the request, Richard resected the tumor anyway and the tumor was shown to be benign. After Richard explained the situation to Mark, he allowed the transplant to go on.

Neil woke up post-op and was surprised not to see his loved ones there. Meredith reminded him that he asked them not to come, but she suggested that they could call right now.

Familial
Neil's family came to his first two transplants, both of which fell through. When a third came up, he didn't call them because he believed it would fall through like the others had. When his surgery was successful and he woke up without anyone there, he was disappointed and immediately called them to come see him.

Notes and Trivia

 * He was 62 at the time of his multi-organ transplant.