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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Rivy on October 27, 2013, 03:02:22 PM
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Hi dialysis and Transplant friends with families, I haven't posted in awhile but asure you I've been keeping track of posts. Great news! I finally got a call on last Thursday say there was a donor match for me. A cadaver . I was to come in in 3 hours to be admitted to a room at the UNMH. I showed up right at 3:00pm. I waited with Anxiously for is it really true. I'm I really here for a kidney and not sort of infection? Nope! I'm really here for a donor kidney and they were waiting for it to arrive from Santa Fe, N.M. So it's not going to be on ice for long. At 4:00 they will be coming to prep me and around 4:00pm I'm going down to surgery. It's happening! At 6:00 pm I received a healthy kidney . It had to get kick started and I was Anemic. I woke up on Friday afternoon. I awoke scared and worried hopping nothing was wrong me or with the kidney. I did dialysis one Friday to kick it in I guess. After dialysis urine stop flow . Oh no! What went wrong. I have a cath in my penis and a draining tube off the stitch where kidney is in. After a blood transfusion two pint and some of the reject meds it started to flow again. Just these little things to worry about and all I'm hoping that its working . Today , I'm walking on my own, tomorrow they will take out the foley and I'll pee on my own . I have the six hours to do it with a max amount. They'll also take the drainage out as will. I'm just worried and wonder if this is normal . They say my Creatinine is at 7 and it should be at 3 or 4. I hope it goes down so I don't have to do dialysis. Thank you for reading my post and taking the time too. :clap;
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Sounds like your new kidney may be a sleeper. Sometimes it takes a week or two for everything to work itself out. Hang in there and do everything the nephrologists tell you to do. Keep us posted - we'll be pulling for you and your new bean!
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Drink and walk! :cuddle;
Those kidneys sometimes are just a bit lazy. Here's hoping that is what is going on in your case.
Aleta
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Good luck....drink drink that water! :thumbup;
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I had a sleepy kidney too. It had to be flown in from parts unknown so it was on ice for a little longer than they would have liked it to be. My transplant started at noon on a Tuesday and it really didn't get going until Saturday night, but boy once it started, it started with a vengeance. My creatinine dropped like a rock. I had a couple of rounds of IV antirejection drugs over the few days after the transplant and that was what really gave it the kick in the pants that it needed.