The Kidney Guy
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Introduction | I have been a kidney failure patient my entire life. When I was in middle school I started peritoneal dialysis which I continued for two years. My first year of High School I received my first transplant from my dad at Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Washington. My transplant lasted for seven years before it failed and needed to be removed. I was on hemodialysis for four years. In 2009 I was accepted as a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2010 I got the opportunity to get a transplant as part of Hopkins’ Paired Exchange transplant program. However I was diagnosed with acute heart and lung failure and had to be pulled from the surgery. My wife and I decided to move 3000 miles to Baltimore in order to be a permanent patient at Hopkins. My wife and I recently took part in a large domino transplant at John's Hopkins Hospital (partnering with other hospitals around the nation). We had the the surgeries on March 8th, 2011. Both of our operations went very well and we are both extremely greatfull to have had the opportunity to take part in such an amazing program. |
| Interests | renal failure, dialysis, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, kidney failure, kidney, kidney transplant, |