Kidney transplant rejection...

[Guest guest]

Hello all! I am new here. Just wanted to say hello and say that I

think it's great to have this forum for us to share common struggles,

successes, pains, etc. I just spent the Thanksgiving weekend in the

hospital due to a rejection episode. I am currently 9 years out of

transplant and this is the first (and hopefully the last!) episode.

Thank the Lord! Just wanted to get some feedback from any of you who

have gone through this sort of thing, treatments that were done, etc.

I am in the Tucson AZ area. Keep your head up everyone!

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

A very warm welcome to you! I am just so sorry you spent the holiday

weekend in the hospital. Did they get the rejection under control?

May I inquire if your kidney was a cadaveric or living donor kidney?

I just went for a transplant evaluation today with a possible donor

and am pre-transplant so I am afraid I can't answer your questions

about a rejection episode, but Marty if he is still reading the board

lost a kidney so he may be able to comment.

I hope you are stable now.

Welcome again!

>

> Hello all! I am new here. Just wanted to say hello and say that I

> think it's great to have this forum for us to share common

struggles,

> successes, pains, etc. I just spent the Thanksgiving weekend in the

> hospital due to a rejection episode. I am currently 9 years out of

> transplant and this is the first (and hopefully the last!) episode.

> Thank the Lord! Just wanted to get some feedback from any of you

who

> have gone through this sort of thing, treatments that were done,

etc.

> I am in the Tucson AZ area. Keep your head up everyone!

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

I just wanted to say welcome to the group, I'm glad you found us! Your

father is a wonderful person for giving you a second lease on life.

I hope things settle down for you in the rejection department. It sounds as

though they have things in check now. I'm not at the point of needing a

transplant so I can't comment on the rejection experience.

I'll have to agree with you regarding the state of health insurance in

America. I have had more than my share of fights with my company regarding how

my neph wants to dose me with certain drugs. My neph and I have had to work out

ways to write my script so that the insurance company will give me the amount of

pills I need for the month. Most of my scripts are written with the dose wrong

on the bottle because the insurance will only cover once a day dosing on some

drugs (for those my neph writes the script for twice the mg and I split the pill

so I take half twice a day) or the insurance will only cover " x " number of

pills per month on others...I have a separate sheet of paper that has the proper

doses on it for the day.

Welcome again to the group!

Amy G.

Kidney transplant rejection...

Hello all! I am new here. Just wanted to say hello and say that I

think it's great to have this forum for us to share common struggles,

successes, pains, etc. I just spent the Thanksgiving weekend in the

hospital due to a rejection episode. I am currently 9 years out of

transplant and this is the first (and hopefully the last!) episode.

Thank the Lord! Just wanted to get some feedback from any of you who

have gone through this sort of thing, treatments that were done, etc.

I am in the Tucson AZ area. Keep your head up everyone!

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