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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: plugger on April 14, 2017, 10:43:08 AM
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Still a lot of good people in this world:
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/11/12716978/kidney-donation-dylan-matthews (http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/11/12716978/kidney-donation-dylan-matthews)
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Great article. Rather long but very clearly details his thoughts, reasons, and experience.
I had to share this with Family.
Hopely this will be spread far and wide. Maybe, just maybe, it will prompt many people to think seriously about transplants donation.
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And from this ~17 years ago living donor, I can only say I might as well have lost a toenail - as I'm fond of saying. I haven't noticed much of any change in my health. The only thing I can point to is my creatinine might run a little high.
And it is nice to be worshipped at the dinners University Hospital puts on in Denver. Also there is the Donor Dash race in Denver.
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Hopely this will be spread far and wide. Maybe, just maybe, it will prompt many people to think seriously about transplants donation.
My hope too! Maybe I don't talk about my experience as a living donor enough, might help. It was just never a big deal on my end - bigger deal for my daughter! I just remember having to spend some time on my back feeling like a turtle that had been flipped over after the operation - but that didn't last long. Otherwise I have to say one of the biggest thrills of my life was watching my zombie-like daughter (she didn't take well to dialysis) come back to life with the transplant! And I remember one of the nicest things anybody ever said to me was a nurse who said I "had given her birth for a 2nd time". My labor pains might have been she was able to talk back more after the transplant (I tell myself it is a sign of health).
Anyway, I should get back to my screaming meanie mode before anybody thinks I'm getting soft in my old age.
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Parents often say they would give 'anything' for their Child. Far too often when it comes to giving up a part of their physical body those thoughts change.
In your case you did it!
I can only imagine the satisfaction of knowing that you made the difference. It has to be huge.
Congratulations!
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I love your story, plugger! You deserve good karma, green lights at rush hour, and good parking spaces for life.
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:rofl; :thx; You people embarrass me with your kind words - but that doesn't stop me from getting a :) from it!
It does make sad when I hear about relatives unwilling to donate - who seem perfectly capable. But I will admit to a little fear when the transplant staff was putting the anesthesia mask over my face. I remember thinking "oh crap, this is real!". But the next thing I remember is waking up with a couple of medical staff at my side asking me how I felt. I told them I was going to puke, whatever they shot me full of was real good! So that feeling went away quickly.
Think one way to overcome the fear is to do a lot of research. Here might be a place to start:
http://dialysisethics2.org/index.php/information (http://dialysisethics2.org/index.php/information)
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And I will say the daughter still seems to be going strong today - makes me glad I pushed to get her off the formaldehyde reuse fresenius was doing at the time:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6971198 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6971198)
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anti-N-like antibodies, would assume that should be on a person's labs - but I don't, can't recall!