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Ohio Woman Donates Kidney To Spouse

By Anonymous

My Online Diary: How It Helped Me through My Husband's Transplant
By Janice Uible
Being the wife of a dialysis patient waiting for a kidney transplant was overwhelming enough; I never thought I would be his kidney donor. I still can't believe that it will be one year on October 29th, our kidney-versary and my husband's birthday! When I first started keeping an online diary, it didn't really occur to me that many people I didn't know would read my site. So I chose the title: KIDNEYGURL because it sounded like me. I gave the Website address :http://kidneygurl.diaryland.com to friends who wanted to keep informed about The Transplant Date (which had been postponed twice already). It was easier to type about what was going on than repeat the same report over and over on the phone. With 24-hour availability on the Internet, I could post my entries at night, when I couldn't sleep. I read email from new and old friends, as the new transplant day approached. I don't know how other people heard about my site, other than looking at new diaries that were not "password" protected, or why they kept reading, but they did. I got an email from a visitor on the same day I started my diary. She had been a donor for her father. She wrote me encouraging words from "One Who Had Been There." Other readers wrote or signed my guestbook and identified themselves as donors or family members of a donor. They were so positive and uplifting!

It was hard to accept their compliments. I felt unworthy of their praise. I still feel that the kidney donation was not a sacrifice, but an honor in itself to be healthy enough to qualify. And being healthy, the donation was not a big deal. I didn't even know where my kidneys were before Richard's diagnosis and I don't miss the missing one, now that it is gone. But that is a whole other topic. Back to Topic: It was touching to know that there were more people rooting and praying for us that didn't even know us than people we knew. I discovered that we were not alone. I read other diaries about kidney transplants. I learned from them. I "met" many who were affected by kidney failure and also their families. I was very impressed by "Kidney Failure-A Personal Journal" by Peter Langley. It was well written and very informative. I chose Diaryland for my diary because A) it was free to create a basic diary and B) it was easy to set up and use. Later I upgraded from "FREE" for a few dollars to be able to add photos.

Here are my favorite diary sites:
http://diaryland.com
http://easyjournal.com
http://www.livejournal.com I included photos of my husband, Richard, in the dialysis clinic; a photo of me 12 hours after the surgery; photos of both of us in the hospital; Richard having plasmapheresis treatments after the transplant; the hotel where we recuperated for a month; and anything that my $29.95 digital camera could take. I included links to favorite sites, anecdotes and little stories that I liked. I wrote in my diary whenever I felt like it, recording information and medical updates, venting my frustration and sometimes just being silly. Because I have found that laughter does reduce everything to size. Sometimes the encouragement I received from a diary reader meant the difference between a bad day and a good day. I believe God sent the right people into my life as necessary. I cannot say anymore than that. There was a sense of accomplishment as I learned web page building skills, and a good feeling, when I knew that many of our friends from dialysis would be able to keep up with us after we left there. Some folks (like my 83-year-old mother) would ask, "Aren't you afraid of all the STRANGERS on the Internet reading all your personal stuff?" To that, I only smile and want to say, "After being through a kidney transplant as a donor or recipient, there isn't much left untouched, un-probed or private." I write from my heart. My thoughts and feelings are my own and I have found a wonderful community of kindred spirits, whom I am proud to call my "friends" and would love to meet in person and share a pot of tea. I do use my middle name "Anne" as my diary name, but everything else is completely true.



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Breaking News:...There is ONLY ONE Disease and ONE Cure...Here It is...

By Anonymous

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When you are too acidic for an extended period of time, the disease of being too acidic manifests itself in any one of the 400 or so conditions that the medical profession calls disease, such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, kidney or liver failure.

Cancer is not a disease, but merely a very severe condition or symptom of the disease of being too acid.

If the acid pH is not reversed, bacteria, yeast, fungus and mold will continue to perform the function that Mother Nature designed them for, that is to recycle your body ‘back to the dust from whence you came.’

There is only One Cure for All Diseases, a Balanced pH.

Let me give you a basic understanding about normal body chemistry and pH balance.

A pH of 7 is neutral, which is the pH of distilled water, neither acid or base.

The pH of acids range from 1 to 7, 1 being the strongest acid, such as sulfuric acid.

The higher the number, the weaker the acid. A soft drink is very acidic with a pH of about 2.

Above 7 up to 14 is a base (alkaline). Milk of Magnesia is a fairly strong base with a pH of 10.5 while baking soda, used frequently to neutralize acids, is only 8.8.

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Wife's Gift To Husband: Kidney

By Anonymous

Richard Uible was diagnosed with kidney failure in January,2001.

               It started in November, 2000 when Richard agreed to get his nose fixed and stop the wall shaking snoring that his sleep apnea was causing...............
               Routine pre-operative lab tests caused his surgeon, Dr. Mark Mandell-Brown, to find the first signs of abnormal bloodwork and EKG. His surgery was cancelled. Richard was stunned; he had regular medical checkups, including a full physical evaluation in May,2000. Instead of his surgery and recuperation , Richard began the first of many visits to specialists.
               Dr. Frank Albers told him that it was only a matter of time before his kidney functions would stop entirely.
Richard was given the standard options to consider: Dialysis, Transplant Work-Up, or Hospice Care.
               His wife, Janice, encouraged him to prepare for dialysis by having an access surgically created; it would take up to 4 months to be ready for use.
Richard had this surgery at Christ Hospital in February, 2001 and while waiting for the "wolf at the door", he began to be worked up for qualification as a kidney transplant recipient. After extensive tests, Richard was found to be acceptable and healthy enough for transplant surgery. But he was 60 years old and the dialysis that could be starting soon would be hard on him physically, hard enough to take it’s toll through heart complications that could disqualify him. The cadaver transplant waiting list was long; a year and a half was an average wait for a kidney.
               Richard is the oldest of 9 children. There were no suitable donors in that large family that included their children and spouses -- a total of 22 people. His parents were too old and frail to even be tested to save their son. It was hard to believe that there was no one that could or would be able to give Richard the chance to live a normal live.

          Janice asked the doctors to try her. Initially they had refused to test her , telling her that a related donor would be a more realistic chance of a good match and the odds were not in favor of an her being compatible as a donor for her husband. Janice went back to trying to understand the complicated kidney medical terms and tests by researching them on the Internet.
Google.com search engine produced many positive results for Keywords : "living unrelated kidney donor". Janice read with hope and anticipation that she could qualify as Richard’s donor.

Finally the feisty 54 year old high school drop-out insisted on being tested on May 9, 2001. Results: Janice was a 5 out of 6 antigen match. First battle won! But the disease progressed . On June 30, 2001,Richard began dialysis 3 days a week, for 5 hours at a time. He hated this necessary procedure that left him exhausted and depleted, but keeping him alive.
He knew that he did not want to continue living like this. The dietary restrictions, the aches and pains made it hard to even think about the future.
His only hope was that Janice would pass the next round of tests and be allowed to be his donor.
               Life is hard but God is good; Janice was cleared for donation. She felt like she had been accepted as an astronaut. Besides saving Richard, having a living donor would free up a cadaver kidney for someone else.
                         More tests, then a few more setbacks, 2 "postponements" of the transplant surgery, a few complications that needed to be fine tuned and then--It's A Go!

               The double surgery was performed at Christ Hospital on October 29, 2002. This was also Richard's sixty-first birthday, a day to celebrate , a day he will never forget.
Janice's right kidney was removed at 7:00 a.m. and this birthday gift was given to Richard by the highly skilled team of surgeons.
Janice left the hospital in 3 days and Richard was released 2 weeks later. They are recuperating while staying at the Kingsgate Conference Center.

                                                                



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