Hello, I'am Jay from St. Marys, Ontario

Hello everyone, My name is Jason and I am 35. I have had two kidney transplants and have recently found out that I will have to go back on hemo within the next few months. A quick history of my situation. I was born with kidney disease and knew from a very young age that I would need a transplant at some point in time. I have no siblings so my parents were both tested and turned out my Mom was a match. So when I was 20 it was time for my transplant. All went perfect with a few minor bout of rejection. Then somehow I ended up with CMV which pretty much caused sever chronic rejection. So after 3 years with my mom's kidney I was on dialysis. (I never had dialysis before the transplant because we knew that it was needed and I was transplanted before dialysis had to be started) I had a fistula done about a year before I started dialysis so when I stated I had an access already, mind you not a very strong one. After a short time on the main floor of hemo I went on to do "self care" at the same hospital, where I did pretty much everything myself, mind you I hated doing my own needles. Well I stated dialysis in January of 96 and on February 9, 1999 I got the call that they had a kidney for me. Had the transplant (cadaveric) and all went absolutly perfect, no rejection nothing. But.... in 2002 I had an absess (sp?) whcih burst and I went septic. Needless to say this damaged my transplant severly. I went from a creatine of 120 to 680 then the doctors were able to get it back down to around 280, which was much better. But they told me that the transplat took a lot of damage and that more than likly things would progressivly get worse over the next few years. Well I now have a cr of 450 and have to go see a vascular surgeon on March 11, and find out about having another fistula tied in. I had the old one tied off for my job.

I still work full time in a factory as a welder, but I now find that I am very tired again and usually work and sleep, and try to spend time with my wife and 9 yr old tiwn boys.

I am also very interested in home hemo, as here in the London area (Canada) they seem to really try to promote home hemo, but I need to do more research on that and I hope to learn lots on this site. I really look forward to your input and information and hope that I can help whereever possible as well, as I do have quite a bit of knowledge as well.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, so stay postive and all will work out.

Jay Hammond