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02-25-2009, 09:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | Transplant Successful! (post-op pics inside)
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Update from this thread: Donating My Kidney Tomorrow...
So I made it back from my kidney transplant this weekend with great success! I was admitted Friday morning, was released Monday, and have just been lazy since then. Sorry for the delay in posting.
So they took my left kidney laproscopically, meaning it was taken using scope, and a small 3 1/2" incision at my belly-button to pull the kidney through. It cut down on pain a lot, although it still hurt, and makes a faster recovery time for me.
I took a couple self-pics to give you an idea of the scarring:
(Yeah, I know the one is kind of MySpace-esque, lay off  )  
They shaved off like half of my Austin Powers rug off too, which really sucks right now because it's growing back.
It was pretty painful at first, and still is sometimes, overall it's just really uncomfortable now, I'm majorly bloated.
The donated kidney is working extremely well, my sister is looking like a regular person again (she was in pretty bad shape before). She should be home tomorrow.
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02-25-2009, 10:05 PM
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but kudos to you for going through with it
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02-25-2009, 10:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | First, you did an awesome thing. Kudos to you.
Second, laproscopic surgery is possibly the greatest invention in modern medicine. I've got a few puncture wounds, but healed quickly from surgery because of the laproscopy.
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02-25-2009, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | Good to hear that you and you sister are doing well. Seriously, what a commendable selfless act. Best of luck to you and your family. |
02-25-2009, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Linas  Good to hear that you and you sister are doing well. Seriously, what a commendable selfless act. Best of luck to you and your family. | YEP!  |
02-25-2009, 10:09 PM
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02-25-2009, 10:40 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | Kudos once again for an incredibly cool act. I think you're allowed to take a couple days off from posting after coming home from donating a freakin' kidney! 
I had no idea they could take it out using laproscopy now, that's amazing! Having been gutted like a fish myself, that probably cut down a ton on pain and healing time.
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02-25-2009, 10:45 PM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | | They took it out the front? And I always thought kidneys were in the back! Eh, what do I know?
I do know your sister is lucky to have such a generous brother! Good job.
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02-25-2009, 11:00 PM
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You rock, brother. Rock on.
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02-25-2009, 11:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Manitoba | | | Glad to hear it went well! |
02-25-2009, 11:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | you're a hero in the eyes of many. take care and heal well. |
02-25-2009, 11:58 PM
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02-25-2009, 11:58 PM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lazylion They took it out the front? And I always thought kidneys were in the back! Eh, what do I know?
I do know your sister is lucky to have such a generous brother! Good job. | Kidneys ARE in the back. But they take them out and put new ones in through the front. I was surprised, too, the first time I treated someone who'd been on one side or the other of this same process.
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02-26-2009, 12:32 AM
| | | | Respect to you, that's awesome.
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02-26-2009, 01:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | Good work, dude. The patch'll be back in no time but your sister will always know what you did for her. You're alright! |
02-26-2009, 01:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Canberra, Australia | | | Good on you, mate. That was not a small sacrifice you made. I'm glad to hear you and your sister are doing well.
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02-26-2009, 02:51 AM
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02-26-2009, 03:34 AM
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The rug will also return,astounding thread, made me feel good just by reading.
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02-26-2009, 05:20 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | You're like the all-time, forever TB hero dude. Kudos to you, and much health to your sis and yourself!
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02-26-2009, 05:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ealing, West London | | | Big up to you - as they say, My Mrs gave me one of her kidneys 2 years ago now and all going well, your sister is never allowed to argue with you again about anything - it's part of the deal.
Tell her to keep drinking that water - gallons of it !!.
cheers
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