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« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2009, 03:40:46 PM »
Quote from: adairpete on December 30, 2008, 03:44:34 PM
Oh wow! Now I'm not looking forward to a transplant-a stent is placed for 6 weeks!  I had a stent placed when I had a kidney stone removed by laser lithotripsy and I'm still traumatized by that damn thing!  The urologist wanted me to leave it in for 1 week and I pulled it out myself after 3 days-I couldn't take it anymore!  Everytime I peed I would lie doubled up on the couch for 30 min before the cramping and pain would stop long enough for me to move around (and I was on vicodin at the time!).  It was uncomfortable to sit, stand, walk, and there's 6 weeks of that! Ugh! 

Pulled it out yourself? ???
I'm thinking either you have medical instruments at home or that this is totally in a different location compared to a transplant. I never knew mine was in there.
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« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2009, 05:21:17 PM »
I'd like to know what she stuck up her "pee hole" (pardon my French, that sounds discusting I know) to get it out!    <faint>   Are you talking about a catheter or a stent?   
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« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2009, 05:26:18 PM »
Quote from: kellyt on January 01, 2009, 05:21:17 PM
I'd like to know what she stuck up her "pee hole" (pardon my French, that sounds discusting I know) to get it out!    <faint>   Are you talking about a catheter or a stent?   

I should have used that also in my post asking her. Even with a catherter, YOUCH!!

Maybe it is different with females, but in men they have to deflate the bulb that holds it in and to help seal it so it does not leak. If we pulled that out, that's gonna hurt and cause some sort of damage.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
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No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #28 on: January 01, 2009, 05:31:48 PM »
i have read somewhere some stents have a "cord" on the outside of the body ..where they can be removed easily  with out any discomfort...Chris
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« Reply #29 on: January 01, 2009, 06:09:47 PM »
That's interesting.  Mine didn't have a chord, but that doesn't mean that others don't.

Yes, the catheters in women also have an inflatable "balloon" that holds them in place.  There's a button on the tubing that they use a sortof "key" to push and it deflates the "balloon".  You could definitely remove that yourself if you know how to deflate it.

Again, that's if we're all talking about the same thing here.  My stent was 100% inside me.  I would have been way too tempted to yank that puppy out myself had there been a chord!  But still...  ouch!
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1993 diagnosed with glomerulonephritis.
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 #30 on: January 01, 2009, 06:18:33 PM »
I didn't have a cord either,but thinking unsafe for a person to yank it out without knowing what to do. It's way up there and the tract curves. Yanking could say bye bye to the new connection to the new kidney I would think, not to mention painful.

Again we do not have all the facts on her case though, we're jumping at straws right now.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #31 on: January 01, 2009, 07:11:39 PM »
I definitely had a stent-I still have it actually along with 2 of my 4 kidney stones.  Weird, I know, but...well, I don't have a good excuse so don't force me to make up a bad one!  No medical instruments were needed to remove it-it had a long black string attached to the end and the urologist said I could take it out myself (he said it was just like pulling out a tampon, but I didn't believe him since what does a 60-something year old man know about pulling out a tampon?).  Anyway, removing it didn't hurt, but it made my kidney spasm for a good 15 min, which hurt like hell, but when it was all over I felt much better! 
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« Reply #32 on: January 01, 2009, 10:01:17 PM »
God Bless you!  I couldn't have done that!  ugh!
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1993 diagnosed with glomerulonephritis.
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 #33 on: January 01, 2009, 10:09:42 PM »
Quote from: adairpete on January 01, 2009, 07:11:39 PM
-it had a long black string attached to the end and the urologist said I could take it out myself (he said it was just like pulling out a tampon, but I didn't believe him since what does a 60-something year old man know about pulling out a tampon?).  

You got me there for sure. How would the doc know anything about that is beyond me :urcrazy;

He must have had a very strange upbringing of toys to play with. I don't know, but that's just not right and creepy to say.

I doubt you will have that type for a transplant though. No one I have talked to who has had a transplant has had that type.
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Diabetes -  age 7

Neuropathy in legs age 10

Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
   -glaucoma and surgery for that
     -cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
     - vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection

Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000

Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures -  Priceless

No two day's are the same, are they?
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« Reply #34 on: January 02, 2009, 08:31:29 AM »
Thinking back, when the urologist went over all the "complications" from pulling the stent out I'm really surprised they allow the patient to remove their own stent.  Thankfully, I had no complications.

I'm just thankful now that I was not employed to remove my stent personally.  It was traumatic enough at the professionals office!   :rofl;
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1993 diagnosed with glomerulonephritis.
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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