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Title: Hi from Texas
Post by: dtwbcs on October 16, 2014, 11:12:26 PM

I am a 49yr male who donated a kidney for my brother. He is doing awesome!
I on the other hand ,am struggling to get  back to normal. Very lethargic now and tire easy. On the Renal diet now :( .My GFR is a 37now with 8months after the surgery. Was informed at 5months it shoulda been a 50.I was at 100 B4 the operation. Had a ultrasound. Some swelling on rt side of remaining kidney(right).Go to Memorial Hermann tomorrow for CT scan.
 Making myself sick from worrying.....

Title: Re: Hi from Texas
Post by: obsidianom on October 17, 2014, 03:24:38 AM

Quote from: dtwbcs on October 16, 2014, 11:12:26 PM

I am a 49yr male who donated a kidney for my brother. He is doing awesome!
I on the other hand ,am struggling to get  back to normal. Very lethargic now and tire easy. On the Renal diet now :( .My GFR is a 37now with 8months after the surgery. Was informed at 5months it shoulda been a 50.I was at 100 B4 the operation. Had a ultrasound. Some swelling on rt side of remaining kidney(right).Go to Memorial Hermann tomorrow for CT scan.
 Making myself sick from worrying.....

Hang in there. You are a saint for donating . Sorry it has damaged you. Keep seeing the docs until you get it strightened out. Hopefully it will.

Title: Re: Hi from Texas
Post by: Shaks24 on October 17, 2014, 04:58:53 AM

Wow. So so sorry to hear you are going through this. I hope the CT scan shows something that can be corrected and bring you back to feeling well. Let us know how it goes. 

Title: Re: Hi from Texas
Post by: Rerun on October 17, 2014, 07:25:12 AM

Welcome!  I'm sorry that such a good thing went wrong!  It may or may not help you to know that because you were a donor you shoot to the top of the transplant list.  At least that is what I've read. 

 :welcomesign;    :pray;

Title: Re: Hi from Texas
Post by: dtwbcs on October 17, 2014, 06:48:40 PM

Thanks, and I wish I knew about this site when I was taking my Brother to dialysis. He started on Dec 2010.And we were a national match in Dec 2013. The transplant was a national 3way swap. The first for the hospital; so it made the Houston Chronicle, front page. I framed the article and gave it to the dialysis center and also to the transplant facility. :bow; Can't thank them enough for what they did. I was only trying to take care of my Brother.