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kitkatz
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Access?
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January 19, 2008, 07:30:21 PM »
Hear ye! Hear ye!
Here is the official contest for longest running dialysis graft on IHD.com.
I have been on dialysis nine years, the second graft has been going
7 years!
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Remember your present situation is not your final destination.
Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.
"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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Re: Access?
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January 19, 2008, 10:30:38 PM »
Graft? What abt fistulas? I've had my fistula 21 years!
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
Hickman
Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm. Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm. Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel. The prognosis is not good. Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse. Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital. Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
kitkatz
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Re: Access?
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January 19, 2008, 10:54:44 PM »
No. not AV fistulas, grafts, with the tube in the arm!
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5
Remember your present situation is not your final destination.
Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.
"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
Krisna
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January 19, 2008, 11:10:50 PM »
Quote from: kitkatz on January 19, 2008, 10:54:44 PM
No. not AV fistulas, grafts, with the tube in the arm!
I know. I'm glad I haven't needed one of those yet! I think 7 yrs is the longest I've ever heard anyone having a graft though. Good job on keeping it functional!
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
Hickman
Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm. Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm. Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel. The prognosis is not good. Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse. Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital. Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
jbeany
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Re: Access?
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January 20, 2008, 12:06:20 PM »
Well, I'm not going to qualify here - My first one lasted less than a week. My second is on its last legs already - at just over a year of use. I've had it for two years.
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KT0930
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January 20, 2008, 12:33:35 PM »
I've had mine for 27 years...oh wait, it hasn't functioned in over 25.
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I received a 6 out of 6 antigen match transplant on January 9, 2008. Third transplant, first time on The List.
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