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Personality Change of Kidney Transplant Patient

Caregivers | Last Active: Nov 21, 2023 | Replies (63)

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Hello @paradis

I am glad to hear that you have sought out resources to help you at this time. That is a very wise thing to do. It is also good to hear you say, "I have to protect myself and my child too." You are setting a good priority and that will perhaps speak to your husband's self-involvement at this time.

If you do decide to leave your husband, please remember to keep those resources of counseling, Connect and other supportive groups in place. You will need them as you move on.

I hope that Connect can support you in this decision-making process. In that light, I would like to invite @paus to this discussion. She might have some insights from her own experience to add. Will you continue to share with Connect as you move forward?

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Replies to "Hello @paradis I am glad to hear that you have sought out resources to help you..."

Hi Teresa,

Sure, I can get back to Connect after some time to share my further experience. I actually got here just because I was reading through different articles available online describing how various people changed after they got an organ transplanted from another person - and, many times, how they picked up certain habits, preferences, behaviors etc. from the donor. Which is, in my opinion, another taboo in this society, because of course, who wants to get an organ from, let's say, a nasty person? But, if you need an organ, you don't think twice. So, people often do not think about these things. But the cells do have a memory and patients and their relatives do notice these changes (thankfully, not always bad changes). As I said, this is a very wide topic but yes I do believe that this is possible since I learned certain things about our donor which explains a lot to me. If at least the society helped the caregivers more, that would be nice, but we don't get any real help from anywhere. Anyways, thanks for having me here and I really wish the best to everyone, I wish people were always healthy and nobody would have to suffer in any way.