I rather hope you'll be back on it soon then squire rather than stripping it down. Good luck and speedy recovery :thumbup
The tale of two kidneys.....
Long story short I didn't sell it to fund an RSV4 :doh
My Dad was taken in as an emergency after a routine blood test as a result of not feeling too good (hadn't been to the Dr's for years). He was immediately diagnosed as having chronic renal disease and being in the final stage, stage 5. This basically meant that he could no longer function without dialysis 3 times a week for 4 hour sessions, with the only 'cure' being a transplant. This is nowhere near as rare as you may imagine and is very often the way chronic renal disease is finally discovered in a person. I put myself forward to be tested and as luck would have it, came back as a match and successfully completed all the remaining tests to become a live donor.
So on the 17th June they flipped my left one out and popped it into my Dad. The transplant has been a full success and my Dad is back at work and has returned to being able to live a normal day to day life, and fingers crossed will be able to for the next 15-25 years :doug
If anyone out there ever finds themselves in a similar position and would like someone to talk to, or if you find yourself diagnosed with crd, with the prospect of being on dialysis, please feel free to contact me. Live donations work and have the best success rate of all transplants. The NHS at Southmead Hospital in Bristol were brilliant throughout, and I cannot praise them highly enough :thumbup
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