Kidney Patient Guide

Happy Holidays to all – part 1 9DEC 2003) Last year at about this time, I was more than a little “out of it”…. I was so shaky from the pred that I couldn’t even handle a pen, and I actually TYPED all of my holiday greeting cards. Life post-transplant certainly hadn’t yet settled into wha...

Hi, all - Well, I guess I'm an old-timer, too. Rach, Sweetie, thanks SO much for starting this thread! I know, I know, I know - I need to be in touch! I've been on the board since early November 2002. Had my transplant in late October 2002, and only after I got home did I start looking for others to...

Hi, Mal - so great to see you back! Where are you living these days? Last I recall, I believe you were moving in order to be closer to family?

Hope things are going okay for you. Please post some more & let us know what you've been up to.

Take care!

all the best,
Cheryl
Connecticut/USA

Hi, Lorna - I'm so happy for you that the hospital set you free! Really, tho, yours is one of the odder stories I've read lately. Did they ever figure out how or why you got that infection? It all sounds so strange - and certainly nothing you'd ever expect ! In any case, I'm very glad they got it al...

Lorna -

We're ALL sending lots & lots of good wishes your way! Please get better soon!

all the best,
Cheryl
Connecticut/USA

Hi, all - Helen brought up something about plaque build up and a connection with kidney issues... That just reminded me of something that happened way back when I first found out about my own renal problems, and I've never been able to find anyone in the medical field who would even give me an opini...

Hi, all - In the last few months before my transplant, I had iron infusions weekly - and for me, they took 4-5 hours each time, as I recall. I'm in the US, so my experience may be different.... In the hospital where I had the infusions done, I had to sit in an outpatient room filled with about a doz...

Mel, I am so, so sorry - for both you and your Dad! I know that it's devastating for both of you right now, but I have to believe that things will work out in the end. When my husband Mark went thru all the medical "work up" prior to donating a kidney to me, I think my biggest relief was f...

Hi, Mandy - Thanks for that info! It really IS unusual, I guess!

and Leroy - Please be sure to post a link to your story, okay?

Thanks!
Cheryl

Hi, Tom - There's currently a story like that going around in the US, too: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23149295/ The story is about a person with 3 (not 4) kidneys, who has offered to donate one to a stranger. Even when I first read about it, I was wondering how viable the "extra" kidney m...

Hi, Jim - We saw this the last time we were in London - what a kick! The story is DEFINITELY... ummm... shall we say... a bit of a stretch (haha!), but all 4 of us loved it anyway! Thanks for reminding me about it - I hadn't thought about that show in ages! I would certainly not mind seeing it again...

Hi, Jen - and congratulations again! Just in case it's any consolation, I was on 3x your pred dose after my transplant - you want to talk about NUTS! That stuff had me climbing the walls! I became a fanatic cleaner and silver & crystal polisher all those nights when I was just too jumpy to sleep...

Hi, Bill! You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT !!! It NEVER could have happened in "oh-so-correct" CT!!! Here's the kicker, tho: we got married in Washington, DC ! March 11, 1978 - a sunny, 70 degree day!!! No snow, no ice to trip up the elderly relatives - nothing! - a PERFECT day! (I guess that me...

Thanks, Mandy - Clapton really WAS on top of his game last night, and it truly was mesmorizing. "Two old geezers" on stage together - wow - they really WERE spectacular - oh, but I also feel (in light of my response to Andy) that I MUST point out that BOTH of them are many years older than...

Thanks, guys, for indulging me!!! Oh, Andy - MILESTONE ????? Yeah, I guess it is - 30 years!!! - but I just can't believe I'm this OLD!!!!! Just tell me, please, when did THAT happen? Last night, at the concert, I was thinking back to the very first time I ever saw Clapton in concert... It was an ou...