36 year-old kidney transplant

[Falkenbach]

Hope the pic isn't too big for the screen, or too small to be read. This is from the Herald Sun, a Melbourne (Vic, Australia) newspaper.

[paddbear0000]

That was a great article. Thanks!

[Romona]

  Nice story.

[okarol]

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[stauffenberg]

He may well be one of the rare patients who develop immunological tolerance for the transplanted kidney, so the gradual undermining of the health of the kidney by subclinical rejection processes which usually unfold simply did not happen in his case, since his body recognized his new kidney as part of his own body.  This happens much more often with liver transplants, since the liver is so highly vascularized that there is extensive and intimate interaction between the native blood supply and the graft, but it can also sometimes occur in kidneys as well.

[Falkenbach]

He may well be one of the rare patients who develop immunological tolerance for the transplanted kidney,

If only we could all be that lucky.

Oh, I decided up front that mine was going to last 30 years, I told the doctors that. No ifs, no buts, it's going to last 30 years. 

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[Lori1851]

 
What a great post! God is good all the time !
Lori/Indiana