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« on: March 16, 2010, 04:46:24 PM »
Ive gotten mine and its already going on 5 months and its nothing like I imagned or thought it was gonna be at all!!!!!!


EDITED: Thread moved to proper section: "Transplant Stories" - Rerun, Moderator
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Love,
   Lucy's Kidneys
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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 04:50:43 PM »
My first one lasted 23 years.
Second one is a year and two weeks old.

All's well here.
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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 #2 on: March 16, 2010, 06:59:09 PM »
Lucy you have been a member since September.  So, you have already introduced yourself.  I'm moving this to transplant stories.  Tell us when you got your transplant and how it went.

I don't understand your poll??

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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 08:46:25 PM »
6 and a half months.  And complicated doesn't even begin to describe it!  But I'd do it again, even knowing how messy it was going to get.
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