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What's a reasonable distance for traveling for a kidney transplant?
Transplants | Last Active: Sep 23, 2018 | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
@mlmcg thanks for that! I had a feeling it was the way I was reading it, not the way you meant it. I'm working on asking for clarification instead of letting things upset me. I have learned so much and I appreciate your response.
Transplants are amazing to me and I am in awe of the knowledge and skill that allow them to happen. I'm also impressed by the amount of information that the tranplantee and caregiver need to know and implement daily. Its hard work.
The surgery was not successful & she died about 8 months later. She had juvenile diabetes, then glaucoma in her 40's. A side effect of some of the meds was colon cancer but she told me that it gave her a few more years and she may have made the same decision even knowing the outcome.
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If your mother had Type 1, juvenile diabetes, she was a fighter to have lived long enough to have had you. Diabetes, just like cancer was a death sentence for most people before the 70's. My grandmother was diagnosed with cancer in the 50's send to Rochester, came home and died in her late 80's many, many years later. It sounds as it did not matter the hand your mother was dealt she laughed at it and beat the odds. Even though her surgery failed she laughed at the nurse and said see "I lived through that failed surgery."
Your mother was a good teacher, she taught by example. A good example! Just remember how hard she had to work to show you what you are to do when you do not like the hand you are dealt. Yes, meds have side effects, even good meds, it is how you live with the effects that can tell what kind of person you are. Remember all the good your mother did when you are ready to throw in your hand. Good luck.
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