On 2016-12-15 9:16 AM, Gary wrote:
> wrote:
> I was also told that this isn't a "whole life" saver.
> She was told that the average kidney donation lasts about
> 8 years. After that, you're right back in the same situation.
> Record kidney donation is about 30 years.
>
> I also learned that with any organ donation, you have to take
> immune system suppression drugs so your body won't ever
> reject the new kidney. This is the same as AIDS and leaves
> you open to other problems.
That is what happened with our friends' daughter. She had the kidney
that she got from her father but then needed a second transplant last
year. Then a couple months ago she was extremely ill due to some sort of
reaction to her anti rejection medication.
I new a guy who had a heart and lung transplant when he was in is 30s.
The poor guy never was right again after that. He was on medication
than made him so moon faced I hardly recognized him. I don't know
exactly what happened to him but I heard that he died a few years after
the transplant. A former member of my kayak club had a lung transplant
but that only bought him about a year and a half or a life that was not
much of a life for someone who had always been so active.
>
> My friend that got a kidney from her mom has now learned
> that she has inoperable cancer and will die somewhat soon.
> She's only 38. There is no loving god. ;-(
>
> And please... no usenet guesses here. I only want to hear from
> someone that has actually donated a kidney and find out how that
> 'one kidney' loss has affected their own life, if at all.
>