A rough outline of the process.
April 16 – Pre-op for Gayle and Margie
New Schedule Information on Preop (for Donor – margie)
(not sure if Gayle’s schedule is the same but we have pre-op the same day)
8:30 am Pre-Registration
10:00 am Chest X-Ray
10:30 am Pharmacy and Research Consult
11:00 am Pre-operative evaluation with Transplant Surgeon
12:00-12:45 Lunch (Yahoo!)
1:30 pm Pre-operative evaluation with Transplant Nephrologist (Dept. of Transplant)
2:30 pm Pre-operative teaching with Transplant Coordinator’s
Free Afternoon and Evening. Back to hotel to sleep (hopefully) : )
April 17 – T-day!
6:00 am Donor Prep before surgery (Pacific Campus)
7:30 am Donor Surgery (Margie)
10:30 am Recipient Surgery (Gayle)
Following surgery, Gayle and Margie will be located on the ‘Transplant Floor’ of the Pacific Campus for recovery.
Two to five days after T-day Margie may be released from the hospital to return home. She will need to lay low for a good couple of weeks, but soon should be back on her feet.
Seven to ten days after T-day Gayle may be released from the hospital to return home. She will have a good solid couple of months of staying home. Contact with the germy outside world will be limited – mainly doctor appointments and blood draws.
Two or so months after T-day Gayle may start to return to some normal activities. Germs will always be an issue to some degree, but less so than immediately following the surgery.
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gaylechipman
QueCEUs
lisawallender
zenpaths
Thanks for this informative website. I’d also like to know more about the process for Margie. How will this affect her life? What events and thoughts led up to this decision? What will her process of recovery be? Potentially, there are more people with organs to donate reading this tale than there are those who need organs, so Margie’s story is especially of interest to us. Thank you! And blessings.
Well, never mind. I just found the info I wanted on another page. Thank you!
Thank you for your interest in living donation Kathy and what that process involves. I have posted information about my decision along with some links on the home page – just click the ‘home’ link at the top of this page.
Living Donation is a wonderful opportunity to express and practice ‘generosity’. As well, don’t miss the ‘donation’ button located at the top of this page as another opportunity to pracitice generosity or as we say in Buddhism – ‘dana’.
This is a fuller length video of a laprascopic nephrectomy (57 minutes)…that includes mostly discussion by a surgeon of the removal as well as insertion into the recipient.
The doctor discusses what lies ahead for the recipient after the transplant – possible complications, etc.
You will need a video player like windows media player or the free vlc video player to watch it:
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=3347&fID=345
Rating: G
This video was fantastic, easy to watch (speaking for myself here) and very informative. Thanks!