Friends Step Daughter

[Tinah1968]

Hello everyone....

Yesterday I received a phone call from a friend and she said that on Sunday they rushed her step daughter to the Emergency Room at Methodist Hospital in Houston. She was told that her Kidneys were failing and that she needs to have a Kidney transplant. She had no signs and no warnings that anything was wrong. She is 23 years old and they put her on Dialysis but it is not helping,she was told that the only thing that can help her is a transplant. I am trying to get all the information but I wanted you all to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. I told her Family about the sight and I hope that they can come here to vent or for answers...

[paul.karen]

Wow
That is not the kind of blindisde anyone wants to hear.
Wonder why dialysis isnt helping?   I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers.
Hopefully they can figure out how to help her and her kidneys.

[Rerun]

Since when doesn't dialysis help..... at least keep you alive for a transplant.  How do you just "get" a transplant.  She needs dialysis to stay alive until...... like everyone else.... you get listed or get tested for a live donor.  I wish her the best but I think the doctors are trying to scare the life out of them.  YES, dialysis does help!

[okarol]

I hope she gets better. Dialysis is a lifesaving treatment, since there's no cure for renal failure. It should help her soon. A transplant isn't easy to do when you're unstable. Hopefully the dialysis will make her feel better and able to get listed for a transplant. She's the same age as Jenna - such a tough thing to go through!

[Tinah1968]

Rerun, I agree that is what I told them, I said that she need to go on Dialysis and atleat stay alive. being 23 years old she is so young with a long life to live.  I told them that they needed to ask questions, And not just accept NO for an answer. They said they are not sure what to ask I said ASK EVERYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND. Ask what the disease is called, Does she have HBP, Ask about Dialysis, Ask about a NEPH, Ask anything and everything. I have not heard from them since last night. So i am waiting for a call back. But I agree Dialysis can help or should be able to help.

[Joe Paul]

I can understand the Families shock about kidney failure, I too had a hard time accepting and understanding what I had just been told in the start. As mentioned, I hope they come here and read - read - read! Dialysis, at first, does take time to work, so far as feeling better - etc, be sure the Family knows that. Hope things work out for the girl and her Family.