My husband was worried about the same thing. He asked the transplant team during the evaluation if he would be taking a kidney from a younger person. They said it doesn’t work that way. They use a formula and if a younger person is a better match/fit that person would get it. Since he is over 70, he would likely get an older kidney that they would not put in a younger person.

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I feel the same, and I opted for Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) after being on Hemodialysis for a few months. My quality of life is great, PD at home is working well after 2 years and I am happy and living a good life. PD takes some commitment from the recipient, but once you get used to it, it becomes a routine, easy to do, turn on the cycler, place one bag of the fluid on top of the cycler to warm it up (you can do this hours before is time to connect, and go on with whatever you need to do in the meantime). The most important things is always sanitizing your hands and wearing a surgical mask during the process of connecting the bags to the cycler, and connecting the patient line to your transfer. The machine tells you step by step what to do. One week of each month you visit your nurse for blood tests and follow up the next week with a visit to your nephrologist to discuss the results of your blood test. During the visit with the doctor, you also see the social worker, and the dietician.