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When my mom first got married in 68 they told her she would never give birth. 36 years later my mom has 3 kids, me the youngest and my two sisters. Cut to 97 my mom’s one functioning kidney stopped working, she went on dialisis(sp?). Dialisis SUCKS, what docs don’t tell you is it works for some and not for others. For over a year I watched my mother slowly die, she couldn’t leave a light on in the house, to kiss her you could feel the death on her her color was grey. My family had to fight the docs to perform the a transplant, we had 3 willing donors, myself and my sisters yet doctors the doc’s basically wanted to let my mom die; they said it was due to the fact that the dialisis wasn’t working that they didn’t want to do a transplant. A full year went by and on my birthday March 3 of 98 she had her transplant.
The surgery was night and day her color came back, she could move around again everything. She excerised, not exsessivly but enough, she liked to walk around Castle Island everyday. Well the docs stopped that, no sunlight due to the anti rejection meds. Now from all the meds she has diabetes, osteoperosis and needs a knee replacement. Of course the docs say no too high a risk for infection

We now cut to the present, my mom’s in the hospital admitted, she’s not producing urine, she can barely walk(yet she get’s and moves on her own not on fucking scooter) and she’ll probably need a new kidney. It will be a battle once again they won’t want to do a surgery and now my middle sister has kids so I will be the logical donor. I am more than willing to donate however I am “clinically obese” and will need to lose a bunch of weight to donate. I guess I should be happy that I got 6 more years with my mom that I didn’t get but I’m not I’m angry because I know what’s coming
I’m sorry that I vented but this is the only place that I think would truly understand what my family is going to be dealing with

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no need to apologize brother.

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That is very sad. Horrible in fact. I’m sorry I can’t say anything to make it better.

Let us know how things progress.

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I don’t pray but my thoughts and hope is with you bro. That’s the type of thing that can truly make you into an incredibly strong person. Try to remember this.

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You should know that everyone who reads your post will be thinking about you and yours, be it for a day or a month or a year or more. That’s a whole lot of positive thoughts, so here’s to hoping it helps!

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Thank you everyone, just to give you all an update it was not as serious as I had feared. My mom actually got a kidney infection due to ecoli, we have a small dog and she probably brought in fecal matter from outside. My mom is doing much better and hopefully will be out before Christmas.

Again thank you all

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If your doctor fights against doing what?s right, you need a new doctor.

Please tell me you no longer deal with the doctors who refused to do the transplant in the first place.

I read that the people who are more likely to survive life threatening illness are the people who both take charge, and learn everything they can on their own.

Good luck.