It’s been a while since I last updated my transkid site, as it has helped alot of people I thought I should add a recent post. So its its about 8/9 months since my kidney transplant now and I have got over the little bit of rejection I had a few months ago and since then I would have to say that my life is pretty much where it was before I got sick. I am working full time now, Read More »
This has completely slipped my mine untill i started to redesign my blog.
Everything has pretty much been steady the last few months, had a biopsy to follow up my slight rejection and that was all fine, today i was taken off my cell cept tablets.
I have said goodbye to st helier hospital which has been great to me and im now going to Frimley park every 3 weeks to
I have been meaning to write this for ages becasue many people have asked me what I use to protect my kidney when i play hockey. That right im going to keep playing, the docs said aslong as i find protection i can.
So I have had some really good help from many companies, some which [...]
Been busy lately with getting my life back so working and exercising and the odd night out. Everything is going well after the rejection been taken down on tablets so only 17 per day now which is fine, much rather take tablets then be on dialysis. I am hoping to pick up my final kidney armour next week then I will review each one and let you know so if you do want to play sport you can pick the right one for you.
Since finding out I had Kidney problems I have been on alot of tablets to control multiple things. Now I have had my transplant I’m on even more tablets which mainly include steroids to stop the rejection of the kidney. Lately a lot of people have been asking how many I am taking? what size are they? you get the idea. So I thought I would add a picture of what I am on per day.
21 is the amount of hours I have been in Hospital in the last 3 days. Monday I went for clinic and they wanted a biopsy as they could not work out why my creatinine had gone up by 20pts. So i went back to beacon ward and waited, 4 hours later I was told that they could not get me a bed that day so come back in the morning.
Nothing really to report this week, first few days back to work this week, wasnt so bad other then a few people have colds and I wasnt told so have picked up another one. As a transplant patient I have no immune system so I will pick up pretty much everything. Levels are slowly coming [...]
This week has not been as smooth as other weeks, creatinine levels going up. Normally its around 130 then it went to 141, 149, 151 then went up to 161 so I was called in for a emergency blood test which if were worse I would of had to have a biopsy that day! So [...]
Xmas is over for another year, I ate so much but dont seem to have gained any weight so thats good. I got loads of stuff including clothes, books and loads of sweets!
I had my normal monday check up, I was a bit worried to see what my levels were going to be as I [...]
So it’s now christmas and six weeks since my transplant, everything seems to have sorted itself out, it must have been the drugs messing up my creatinine results.
If my dad hadn’t kidnely given me a kidney this would have been my seventh month on dialysis! This works out at 14 days hooked to a machine [...]
This last week has had alot of ups and downs. Monday I went for blood tests as normal everything was fine, then I got a call that evening by Dr Swift saying my creatinine levels were high (158) and could i change a few of my drugs becasue of this I had to go back [...]
So its now a month since I was given a kidney from my dad and everything was going great untill today, a few of my levels were up compared to normal so now i have to wait and see if they phone if they do then i will have to go in tommorrow for tests. [...]
Its now just over 3 weeks since my operation and everything is going great. All my test results are fine and my doctor said
Your an 8.5/10. But no one ever gets a 9 becasue life isnt that good.
Still got the problem of not sleeping, couldnt sleep last night so worked on a website navigation till [...]
Since putting the transkid site live on the 17th November I have had 96 133 unique hits ranging from USA to lebanon, my page view % has gone up a massive 508%. Seeing as I have not put together any proper advertising for it, its going quite well. Im getting alot of really good feed [...]
It’s now over 2 weeks since my transplant and everything is going great. Since traveling hour and thirty minutes to the hospital monday wednesday and friday mornings I have had only positive news from the doctors.
There’s quite a lot of things I need to get used to like drinking 2/3 litres a day which works [...]
Over the past 6 months I have been battling FSGS, its a condition where an antibody in your blood destroys your filters. When your kidneys dont work you face many problems. Your legs swell up becasue your kidneys dont get rid of the fluid so it just drains through your kidneys
So its 6 days since my transplant and today is my 1st full day at home. It all went pretty smoothly and my dad and I had no complications.
Im really happy its over but its just a waiting game now to see if FSGS comes back in the new kidney. Just got to cope with [...]
This is my final entry for a while, as tomorrow im under the knife. I have asked whether the op can be photographed so i can show people what goes on with a kidney transplant. might seem a bit odd, but it might be useful to people who I going to have a transplant down [...]
I should really be cherishing my time I have, but when your on dialysis all you want to do if get off the machine. But i have found a few ways to kill the time, sensibly and practically.
Once hooked to my 5foot friend i start with…
little sleep – this took a while to master with [...]
