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Acute Kidney and Liver Failure: Looking for help/direction
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Sep 25, 2019 | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
@pandaqty Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. We are not doctors, but patients, caregivers and family members who share our experiences and offer solutions to others that may help them. Your husband is very lucky to have you in his corner! What questions do you have? You mentioned your husband has several, underlying medical conditions besides the acute kidney failure, and is on hemodialysis. A transplant center will not consider potential organ recipients unless they are in good enough health/shape to survive the actual surgery and give the new organ the best opportunity to be successful. A patient can be on the list but be "inactive" due to illness or recovery from it. Depending on where your husband is listed, wait times can vary greatly. Of course the fast route to transplant is a living donor; 99.9% of us are given 2 kidneys, but only need 1 to live! When you mentioned you are long distance, are you saying you and he are living apart, or that you are a distance from the transplant center? We'd like to help you all we can!
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I probably misspoke as far as underlying issues as my brain is fairly muddled at the moment trying to wrap my head around everything in the last month.
He had some liver and kidney issues prior to getting pancreatitis, but they were functioning. A treatment they gave him overloaded his system and caused the liver and kidneys to fail.
We got engaged at the end of April, and weren't planning on marriage for a bit longer, but the time line got pushed fast forward. I do live 1600 miles from him currently (New Mexico to North Carolina) but am trying everything I can to get my loose ends tied up so I can be with him... it was all so entirely unexpected, I basically dropped everything to be with him for as long as I possibly could, which of course isnt nearly enough for either of us right now... and I'm really scared when I'm not able to make a trip out and be with him 24/7.
I appreciate all the feedback I can get as this is unfamiliar territory to both of us.
How would I go about speaking to the nephrology department at one of the Mayo Clinics locations to see about getting a 2nd opinion and the possibility of transplant. He has family members willing to be living donors, as am I but my blood type is not a match.