I finally got that transplant! Happy or worried.

[Rivy]

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.

[Sax-O-Trix]

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!

[willowtreewren]

Drink and walk! 

Those kidneys sometimes are just a bit lazy. Here's hoping that is what is going on in your case.

Aleta

[phyl1215]

Good luck....drink drink that water! 

[cattlekid]

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.