2014 is a red letter year for me as well as my big sister Pam. My sister also has failing kidneys and is just now getting to the point where she is close to dialysis and needs to investigate the transplant route. She started this process a few months ago and incredibly her very first living donor was a perfect match. I'm not exaggerating the 'perfect' part. An organ match is rated on 6 different antigens between donor and recipient. Based on how many of those antigens that match determine how will your body 'should' accept a new organ. When I got my kidney they told me my match was 4 out of 6 which was very very good, in fact if I got a kidney from a blood relative the match would mostly likely only be 3 out of 6. Pam and our cousin Suzanne are a 6 out of 6 match which is perfect. It doesn't mean that rejection is impossible, but it hopefully makes it lesser. All that to say that my sister is scheduled to get her Kidney tomorrow in Kansas City Med Center.
Update: Her surgery went well. They didn't remove her bad kidneys just yet, they will schedule that later after her recovery. Her lab numbers aren't exactly where they want them to be but, they are better than before the transplant. As they get her meds adjusted and her body recovers more they should improve.
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