Kidney Transplant

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

I have to say from July 28, 1995 to September 2005 things just rolled along. I always prayed to God to let me beat the odds. My transplanted kidney was at the back of my mind. I never gave much thought of kidney rejection.  In September 2005, my kidney doctor told me “we need to put you on the list”. I received a half match kidney, which meant that my life expectancy was 10 to 15 years. Well I was at the ten year mark for my Kidney Transplant.

Since I saw my doctor every six months, the statement was addressed, but not any rush was needed. My doctor really stepped up the game in 2007. The reasoning was to get me transplanted before my kidney started to fail.

Here is a little lesson on how ANTI-REJECTION DRUGS work……

….Your body will recognize anything foreign.

….Think of when you get a splinter in your finger. Once it goes into the skin, the area surrounding it turns red. If you get it out, the pain stops and you go on your way.

…Now, if it is a deep one, the area turns really red. This is the infection starting to build, and sometimes it can build up puss. When this happens, God designed your bodies white blood cells to go an attach the infection. The white blood cells go to work to kill the infection, thus healing the finger in this case. In a transplant patient the splinter is the Kidney.

The ANTI-REJECTION DRUGS kill the white blood cells. This is why transplant patients are susceptible to infections.  Taking your anti-rejection drugs are crucial to keeping your transplanted kidney.

Envision your anti-rejection drugs being a guard for you newly transplanted kidney. Every time a white blood cell comes to attack the kidney (what they consider a foregin object), your anti-rejection drugs eat them up.

This shows how they work.

What happens over time. In some people it can be sooner than later.

These white blood cells will eventually break though the guard of the Anti-rejection drugs. When they do your Kidney Transplant will began to fail.

So in 2007 I went back on the Kidney Transplant List. It had now been twelve years since my transplant. I was told A positive blood type would now be at least a three year wait. What! in 1995 it was just thirteen months.

The reason, more and more people are ending up with KIDNEY FAILURE. The number one culprits are Diabetes and Heart disease.

Keep following and as always if you have questions let met know.

Blessings,

Carla

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