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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: Jelena on May 20, 2011, 01:32:59 PM
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On Sunday, May 15th, my husband received a cadeveric kidney transplant after 3 years and 10 days on the list! His creatanine as of yesterday is 1.2 ! The kidney started working immediately, producing about 2 litres the next day. We are so, so happy, and thankful to our donor, donor's family, doctors and staff of our hospital. Surgery lasted only 2 hours! He stayed in the hospital for only 4 days, and we are at our home since last night. What an experience! And the greatest birthday present we got (both of our birthdays are in the first half of May).
He is on CellCept, Prograf, and Prednisone (doctors told us he had to be on prednisone because of his antibodies, but that the dose will be lowered), Bactrim and Valcyte.
All in all, everything so far is running very smoothly, and we hope it continues that way. I have a feeling like we got the third member of our family: our little kidney bean. Such an emotional experience!
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BEST OF LUCK WITH THE RECOVERY AND A LONG LIFE TOGETHER!
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Great news! I'm glad things are going well! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
Aleta
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Congratulations, Those are great numbers so soon after tx. Best wishes for many years of continued success. Your story takes me back 14 months to waking up in post op instantly feeling better than in eight months prior.
Ed
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Wonderful wonderful news!!!! Thanks foir sharing! Wishing you (all three of you) the best!!!!!
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Good job!
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Excellent!!!!!!!
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Such great news to hear :yahoo; Take care, enjoy, and be full of joy :) I wish you ALL the best outcome :clap;
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Congrats! Question though, is a 4 day stay normail? I was told I would be there at least a month or two?
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Great news!
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Thank you all so much! @ Alisa: I think hospitals release patients sooner if all is going OK. I think the standard is about a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. Again, depends on the patient and how things are going. But not a month unless there is something in particular going on.
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:2thumbsup; I added your hubby to the list http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=4927.0