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@lindajo I had my transplant 8 years ago. About a week or two after the transplant, I got very sick and was readmitted to the hospital. It turns out my ureter had failed. They placed a stent to drain the urine (the kidney was thankfully going strong), which stayed in place for about 3 months so that everything could calm down. I then had a repair where they attached my native ureter to my new kidney. It was quite a rare situation, but a success! 8 tears post and I’m still going strong!
I had a lot of depression during that ordeal and it took me long time to feel good again, but my care team was awesome, as was my family. Everyone’s recovery is different. I remember dragging myself in for labs one morning and in comes this young man, fit as a fiddle, saying he was a week post op! So full of energy and excitement! And then I remembered I’m at least 40 years older and that maybe in my 20s I would have bounded in too. We all do the best we can.
Good luck to your husband and prayers headed your way.
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Thank you for the reply. I know and understand that everybody heals differently. It just gets so frustrating seeing him go through all this. He's not the energetic man he was before the transplant. Our visit Wednesday was exhausting, they drew blood and his magnesium and phosphorous were low so he had to have a 4 hour drip. We are a little over 3 hours one way from the hospital.They took the bag off and clamped it, so far he has been urinating. We have to keep a daily urine count. If he goes 8 hours without urinating then we have to put the bag back on. We go back next Thursday and they might remove the tube to see if the ureter stays open. If not they are talking surgery.
Im glad to hear you are doing good 😊