12-05-2013, 07:00 PM
Congratulations to both of them. You have a wonderful daughter!
My daughter received a cadaver kidney. 20 years ago the surgeons cut your flank wide open to get the kidney and recovery took a week in the hospital (morphine for a couple of days) and you were restricted for a couple of months from much lifting. The recipient recovery was much quicker and easier. Now they often do laparoscopic surgery and recovery is quicker and less traumatic. Post a pic of his foley bag with his new urine which will contain stuff dialysis could never filter out.
WHiP, kidney recipient require the right blood type. For example, my daughter is type O and I am type A and she could not accept my kidney. O is the universal kidney donor type (just like O is universal blood donor.) O can donate to A which can donate to B which can donate to AB (so AB can receive from O, A, and B.)
Some organs, like hearts, do not have blood type requirements.
My daughter received a cadaver kidney. 20 years ago the surgeons cut your flank wide open to get the kidney and recovery took a week in the hospital (morphine for a couple of days) and you were restricted for a couple of months from much lifting. The recipient recovery was much quicker and easier. Now they often do laparoscopic surgery and recovery is quicker and less traumatic. Post a pic of his foley bag with his new urine which will contain stuff dialysis could never filter out.
WHiP, kidney recipient require the right blood type. For example, my daughter is type O and I am type A and she could not accept my kidney. O is the universal kidney donor type (just like O is universal blood donor.) O can donate to A which can donate to B which can donate to AB (so AB can receive from O, A, and B.)
Some organs, like hearts, do not have blood type requirements.