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« Reply #75 on: December 23, 2009, 03:34:34 PM »
Fantastic news, Petey....

I wish you and Marvin a very happy Christmas, and all the very best of health in 2010....

May God bless and protect you both...

Love...

Darth...
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« Reply #76 on: December 23, 2009, 03:37:38 PM »
 :2thumbsup;

You and Marvin rock!

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Carl transplanted with cadaveric kidney, February 3, 2011. :)
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« Reply #77 on: December 23, 2009, 07:41:43 PM »
You two are the most awesome partners in the PLANET!!!!!   :clap;
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« Reply #78 on: December 24, 2009, 01:22:44 AM »
For Petey and Marvin.  Happy Holidays.
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« Reply #79 on: December 24, 2009, 05:27:53 AM »
petey, that is brilliant news. You two have a lovely Christmas now. I my self will be glad when the new year starts, like you it has been a sh**ty year, but we have got through it. Merry Christmas to you both.
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« Reply #80 on: January 06, 2010, 03:38:56 AM »
 :bandance; :bandance; :bandance;

I am happy for you.... You are such a special person. I think your persistance might have something to do with the speedy recovery.

 :flower;
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Jan 2010 Nephrectomy (left kidney)
Jan 2010 Fistula
Started April 2010 Hemo Dialysis(hate every second of it)
Nov 2012 Placed on disalibity (loving it)
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« Reply #81 on: January 12, 2010, 04:42:26 PM »
Marvin had a check-up today at his clinic (required monthly to stay on home hemo).  All of his lab work was PERFECT -- the best it has ever been in 15 years!!!  Every single line was right in the middle of "normal."  We were happy beyond words because we figured with the hospitalization, stroke, MRSA, and everything else --- his lab work would take months and months to get back to anything even remotely "good."  We weren't expecting PERFECT. 

Also, after the hospitalization, the docs put Marvin back up to six times/week.  Today, they cut it back to FIVE again!!  Yipppeeeeeee!

P.S. We go back to Duke on Thursday for a re-evaluation to be put back in "active" status on the transplant list (Marvin was put in "inactive" status when the MRSA got him in November.)
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« Reply #82 on: January 12, 2010, 04:48:37 PM »
Yay.  Go Marvin!!
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« Reply #83 on: January 12, 2010, 05:23:38 PM »
Good stuff!
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« Reply #84 on: January 12, 2010, 06:03:50 PM »
Oh, Petey! You and Marvin just rock!

I'm so glad that you can go back to five days a week.

Next step - the list! Woot!

 :bandance; :cheer: :bandance; :cheer: :bandance;
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« Reply #85 on: January 12, 2010, 06:39:36 PM »
Fabulous news!  The power of prayer!   :clap;
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Oct 41, 2007 - Got fistula placed.
Feb 13, 2008 - Activated on "the list".
Nov 5, 2008 - Received living donor transplant from my sister-in-law, Etta.
Nov 5, 2011 - THREE YEARS POST TRANSPLANT!  :D
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« Reply #86 on: January 12, 2010, 09:40:04 PM »
 :yahoo; Very good news - all around!!
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Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
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« Reply #87 on: January 13, 2010, 05:16:59 AM »
Good news is great to hear.  Keep it up Marvin and Petey.
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Pyelonephritis (began at 8 mos old)
Home haemo 1980-1985 (self-cannulated with 15 gauge sharps)
Cadaveric transplant 1985
New upper-arm fistula April 2008
Uldall-Cook catheter inserted May 2008
Haemo-dialysis, self care unit June 2008
(2 1/2 hours X 5 weekly)
Self-cannulated, 15 gauge blunts, buttonholes.
Living donor transplant (sister-in law Kathy) Feb. 2009
First failed kidney transplant removed Apr.  2009
Second trx doing great so far...all lab values in normal ranges
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« Reply #88 on: January 14, 2010, 06:44:16 PM »
Marvin was put back on "active" status on the waiting list today (2,246 days this time around).  Good news!
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« Reply #89 on: January 14, 2010, 06:48:39 PM »
 :thumbup; :thumbup; :thumbup;

But who's counting?

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Carl transplanted with cadaveric kidney, February 3, 2011. :)
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« Reply #90 on: January 14, 2010, 07:02:58 PM »
Excellent! :yahoo;
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