Corpus Christi Caller Times, July 16, 2007 CORPUS CHRISTI - U.S. Highway 77 to U.S. Highway 59, right on State Highway 6, to Interstate 45 and a left into the parking lot at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. It's the same route, as many as four times a month. Seventy dollars for gas each trip, plus the time off from work his daughter must take to drive him. "I just got to take it day by day," said Peña, who since May has waited for the phone to ring with good news on the other end. "I wake up in the mornings, and I'm still alive. I just wish I could get the transplant as soon as I could. I don't want to be a burden to my family." Peña is among 7,401 potential organ transplant recipients in Texas waiting for such a call. Though there is no local database of how many people in the Coastal Bend are on the transplant list, local hospital representatives say there is a need for more organ donors and for an adult transplant center in or near Corpus Christi. The closest transplant centers are in San Antonio, Houston, Galveston and Dallas, and the cost of travel takes an additional toll on patients, said Pam Silvestri, Southwest Transplant Alliance spokeswoman.