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Pre-transplant: GFR 21 Creatinine 2.2 NO Symptoms!
Transplants | Last Active: Feb 24, 2022 | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
@katyrae
I want to add my Welcome to Mayo Connect. I am happy that you have already net @cmael, who has been able to share first hand information from her own experience. Sharing with each other, and supporting each other is what we do on Connect. Everyone is welcome.
My donor (liver and kidney) was a deceased donor, so my experience is different from yours. I got my transplant in 2009 at Mayo MN and I will assure you that life with an organ transplant is better that normal every day for me.
Have you seen the Mayo Living Donor Toolkit? It presents excellent information about living donation that covers the entire donor process beginning with how to get started, the process, the evaluation as well financial information and peer support for the prospective
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/transplant/tab/resource-36/
Here is an interview with @mauraarco, about her kidney donation experience.
From Mayo Connect Blogs>About Connect: Who, What & Why >From the Kidney Donor's Perspective: Meet @mauraacro
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/about-connect/newsfeed-post/from-the-kidney-donors-perspective-meet-mauraacro/
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Thank you Rosemary 🙂 it is encouraging to think about feeling better after a transplant, even if getting out and getting social may still be challenging. Honestly, there's a lot I could be doing right here in my lovely little home! And yes, I am familiar with the wonderful information Mayo has available online. I've learned so much just reading through that! Mayo continues to heal, care, support, and inform in person and across many platforms. I'm am forever grateful to Mayo, they already saved my life providing a (blood disorder) diagnosis and treatment that my local hospitals missed.
Thank you for sharing the video from @mauraarco from the donor's perspective. She is inspiring!
And so are you, what a blessing you received, and what a blessing you are to give back by encouraging and supporting me and others facing the need for a transplant. Hugs 🤗