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Eve told me O- is an option
Got a spare kidney? No I'm not kidding.
- Thread starter JoeT
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So is A+. Thanks to anyone who has called. Please consider donating your kidney even if you do not match my wife. That's what I'm doing!
OK so what blood type is needed? Im a O+ but ill call tomorrow and see if im even a possible. Will let you know when I know.
Not hard to forget a blood type when its on your t-shirt in big black magic marker so the medics cant miss it
OK so what blood type is needed? Im a O+ but ill call tomorrow and see if im even a possible. Will let you know when I know.
Not hard to forget a blood type when its on your t-shirt in big black magic marker so the medics cant miss it
Angie is O+. Thanks Bad Cop!
No worries... I will warn you due to the amount of steel in me I have been turned away before, hell got turned away for bone marrow about a year or two ago for someones on here....
I ll still call and let you know what they say.
Sooooo gotta bump this cause Angie is still in need of a kidney. She has now been on dialysis for 4 years. We almost had a match with my kid brothers new wife.:-\ (Hi, welcome to the Thompson family, spare a kidney?) One bit of good news is that Angie is getting eye surgery next month to correct her double vision. She has a 85%+ chance that it will fix her vision problem.
Interesting fact: IHC can not by law chase after donors. As in advertise the need for kidney donors. Stupid laws.
I've had to force the issue with IHC to allow myself to be a donor for anyone else. They told me that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea with our current situation. I told them I could use a few days off. Besides I get a cool little scar, some drugs and the chance to walk around in a hospital gown mooning people.
Interesting fact: IHC can not by law chase after donors. As in advertise the need for kidney donors. Stupid laws.
I've had to force the issue with IHC to allow myself to be a donor for anyone else. They told me that maybe it wouldn't be a good idea with our current situation. I told them I could use a few days off. Besides I get a cool little scar, some drugs and the chance to walk around in a hospital gown mooning people.
Time for a little update. Sorry I have updated this in a while, the Transplant Team made a change in personnel that slowed things down. We found out that my wife has a high amount of anti bodies in her body. On a 1-100 scale, Angie is a 96-98. We were worried that that meant a no go for transplant, but that's not true. So Angie is still on the "List" for the transplant, just going to take some time to find a match. I am signed up with the paired exchange program with our transplant team. That means I will donate mine to someone else in the program, most likely a out of state patient. Then the Paired Exchange Program has to find a kidney for my wife. The transplant team is excited as they have just signed up with this program.
PBandCJ
like the "sam-itch"
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- North Dakota
I called a left a message to see if i'd work out i think i'm 0+
PBandCJ
like the "sam-itch"
- Location
- North Dakota
IHC called me yesterday afternoon asked a few q/a's and are mailing out the packet for me ,then off to mckay dee for some testing
Drink a lot of orange juice! They'll get you for about 10-13 vials of blood. Thank you!
PBandCJ
like the "sam-itch"
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- North Dakota
orange juice
i thought wiskey worked best to thin you blood (j/k)will do . any more fyi's i should know
orange juice
will do . any more fyi's i should know
Just wait till have to keep a "pee jug" in the fridge for 24hr urine sample.
A donor can plan on a hospital stay of 3-5 days, with 1-3 weeks recovery time. It takes some time to get all the testing done and can be frustrating. IHC basically has to try to talk you out of doing this, because of the legal reasons. You have to convince them as to why you want to do it. You can always always opt out. I do not want to guilt trip anyone into doing this.
PBandCJ
like the "sam-itch"
- Location
- North Dakota
got my paper work saturday afternoon will be going in monday for 1st labs.
Well I just got told that I can not donate my kidney because of 2 kidney stones I had back in 2005.:-\ Back to square one. Anyone can donate in my wifes behalf in the paired kidney exchange program. This will elevate the priority of wifes case and help her get one sooner.
The kidney exchange program was a new idea to me, it sounds like a great answer to the non-matching kidney issues. There was a news article on it today I thought I would share. Good luck Mrs JoeT
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34408759/ns/health-health_care/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34408759/ns/health-health_care/
Wow! 88,000 people waiting for a kidney, I thought it was around 36,000. Thanks for the link Rusted.