Hi everyone. I wanted to check in and let you know that me and dad are doing well after I donated my kidney to him on Tuesday at Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, PA. I came home on Thursday afternoon. I was not at all nervous going into surgery, I believe that is due to all the support and information I received from this wonderful group! Since then, I've been feeling nauseous and emotional, but today is a better day. Been walking and drinking water as instructed. But still sleeping most of the time. Yesterday (3rd day post op) was probably the worst, and I hope I am on the upswing now.
Dad is doing well. The kidney is a little slow and his bp is low, so they have to be careful about pushing too many fluids. He is still in the ICU and received what they called "a little" dialysis yesterday. But he did walk around a bit already. They do not expect to have to give him any more dialysis treatments and he is expected to come home Tuesday or Wednesday. They also expect that he will no longer need insulin and his diabetic symptoms will improve due to the transplant. yay! It will be happy day when we can get together and have some fun again.
I also wanted to say that I believe Dr. Narins and Dr. Yang at Pinnacle did an amazing job. The entire transplant team was there for me every step of the way. Dawn, my social worker, made sure my head was on straight before I went home, and my coordinator Jeri continues to call me at home to check up on me.
Topic: My April 24th surgery went well (Read 7342 times)