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« on: May 12, 2008, 07:34:15 AM » |
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After 3 1/2 years I got the call Monday May 5 from the Albany Medical College and was transplanted Monday nite! Everything went well, and I came home Saturday the 10th.
Followup with clinic visits every Tuesday, blood draws monday, wednesday, fridays. Its kind of an odd feeling not hooking up to my NXstage everyday, and when I had my first banana this week I felt guilty. But its all good, and I look forward to the next stage of my life!
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angela515
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2008, 07:36:46 AM » |
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Can't wait for you to ype out the whoe story/experience. I love to hear everyone's story and everyone has a different experience so I can't wait to read yours. Felt guilty for eating a banana? You need to get over that quickly.. I was excited to eat normal again, never once felt guilty. Again... CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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Live Donor Transplant From My Mom 12/14/1999
Perfect Match (6 of 6) Cadaver Transplant On 1/14/2007
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skyedogrocks
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Rob showing off his pot of gold!
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2008, 07:37:45 AM » |
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Wife to Rob who is currently doing Nx Stage Home Hemo Dialysis.
11/17/09 After 4 years on dialysis, Rob received a kidney from our George. Kidney is working great! YEAH!!!!
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Ken Shelmerdine
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« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2008, 07:46:51 AM » |
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Congratulations I didn't realise the length in hospital could be only five days. Well done!
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Ken
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st789
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2008, 07:51:14 AM » |
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Congratulations!!!
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willieandwinnie
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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2008, 07:58:20 AM » |
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"I know there's nothing to it, but I want to know what it is there's nothing to"
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monrein
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« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2008, 08:03:58 AM » |
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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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paris
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« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2008, 08:16:29 AM » |
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Congratulations! Enjoy this new phase and eat those bananas, drink big glasses of whatever, have fun with your new kidney  |
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 It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. |
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donnia
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2008, 08:18:40 AM » |
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YAY!!! CONGRATS!!!  |
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Born with one kidney 1972
Ureter re-constructured 1975 (reflux had already damaged the kidney)
Diagnosed and treated for high blood pressure 2000
Diagnosed ESRF October 2006
Started dialysis September 2007
Last dialysis June 4, 2008
Transplant from my hero, Joyce, June 5, 2008
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rose1999
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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2008, 08:19:08 AM » |
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How lovely to hear a good news story - don't ever feel guilty, just enjoy  |
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Ginger
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2008, 08:40:02 AM » |
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Congratulations and I hope you have many, many healthy years with your new kidney. Also do not feel guilty about food. Enjoy all the high potassium and high phosphorus foods that you were denied before.
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stauffenberg
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« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2008, 09:14:18 AM » |
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I know that feeling about being uncomfortable varying the renal diet after a transplant. I have had a functioning transplant for three years now and I have continued to remain on the same salt-free diet I had as a dialysis patient. For a long time after my transplant I felt uneasy staying home two days in a row, subconsciously assuming I still had to be at the dialysis clinic every other day.
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jbeany
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2008, 11:00:11 AM » |
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Congrats! |
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"Asbestos Gelos" (As-bes-tos yay-lohs) Greek. Literally, "fireproof laughter". A term used by Homer for invincible laughter in the face of death and mortality. |
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Lori1851
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This is me Lori , Dustin's mom
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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2008, 11:32:25 AM » |
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:yahoo So glad to hear everyhiotng went great!!!! I am so happy for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Lori/Indiana |
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Sunny
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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2008, 12:37:33 PM » |
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Very good news for you. Hope all continues to go well and enjoy some of those forbidden foods.
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Sunny, 49 year old female
pre-dialysis with GoodPastures
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tamara
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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2008, 01:48:14 PM » |
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ABO Incompatible Transplant from my loving Partner 23/10/07
after over four years on the D Machine
Dialysis Sucks and Transplants Don't.................So Far Anyway !!!!!
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annabanana
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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2008, 02:18:38 PM » |
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YAY for BANANAS!!! And YAY FOR YOU!!!!!!
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caregiver to Randy:
HepC and stage 4 ckd
1 kidney removed (cancer)Aug07
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Romona
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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2008, 02:27:15 PM » |
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okarol
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« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2008, 02:31:05 PM » |
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Melissa: ESRD since 1992, transplant June 10, 2008
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« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2008, 03:17:42 PM » |
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This is great to hear! Congrats on your new kidney. I get mine on June 10th!  |
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I have Alport's Syndrome. My kidneys failed when I was 14 and I was on PD for five years before receiving a kidney transplant from my mother. That kidney failed in 2004 and I've been back on PD ever since. I am undergoing treatment for my high antibodies at Cedars-Sinai medical center. I had a kidney transplant on June 10, 2008. My boyfriend was the donor.
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BigSky
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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2008, 04:29:46 PM » |
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Good for you. |
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thegrammalady
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« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2008, 06:47:23 AM » |
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congrats fantastic hope all continues to go well |
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If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
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For You Are Crunchy And Taste Good With Ketchup
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kidney4traci
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« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2008, 06:51:40 AM » |
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Married - three children.
Alports female, diagnosed ESRD 10/04
11/04 Hemo in clinic
6/07 hemo at HOME!
2/3/09 - Transplant from an angel of a friend!!!
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Bajanne
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« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2008, 08:07:32 AM » |
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"To be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own ...but that which is based on faith" I LOVE my IHD family! |
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Sluff
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« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2008, 08:42:37 AM » |
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Congratulations Mark! |
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