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- Entry for June 27, 2009 - Please Sponsor me for the Upcoming Kidney Walk in Canada!
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Kidney Foundation of Canada Gift of Life Walk 2009
I'm participating in The Kidney Foundation of Canada's
Give the Gift of Life Walk Ontario 2009Please support my campaign to help Canadians living with kidney disease by donating today! Your contribution will benefit The Kidney Foundation of Canada, the national volunteer organization committed to reducing the burden of kidney disease.
http://kidneykorner.com/AK/Gift_of_Life_Walk_2009.html
An estimated 2 million Canadians have kidney disease or are at risk while each day an average of 14 Canadians learn that their kidneys have failed.
- In 2008…
- There were 4330 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant.
- 215 people died while waiting for an organ transplant.
- 303 people withdrew from the waiting list.
(People are withdrawn from the waiting list when they become too sick to receive a transplant, opt out of the surgery, or their health improves.) - 2083 trasplants took place. 1541 of those transplants were made possible because of deceased donors.
Secure online donations can be made with VISA, MasterCard and American Express. An electronic tax receipt will be sent to you by email within minutes of making your pledge.
You can make an online donation now. Click here to get started: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=2254627
Since its creation in 1964, The Kidney Foundation has helped millions of Canadians suffering from kidney failure and related disorders such as hypertension, diabetes, urinary tract infections and kidney stones.
Today, the Foundation continues its focus on strategies to improve the organ donor rate in Canada. It is also exploring preventive approaches to detect chronic renal insufficiency at an early stage, delay its progression and prevent complications associated with the disease.
Please help Canadians living with kidney disease - donate now by clicking here: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=2254627
Thank you for your generous support!
Angie
Want to register yourself to walk?
More info on how to register yourself here!
You want to join the walk with me?
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Registration Time: 9:00 a.m.
Warm-Up Time: 9:45 a.m.
Walk Start Time: 10:00 a.m.
Route Length: approx. 5 km
Kidney Foundation Contact Information in Windsor: 519-977-9211 ext. 23Tags: kidneywalk, angieskidney, kidneykorner, kidneyfoundationofcanada, kidneydiseaseawareness, ontariokidneywalk, windsorriversidesportsmenclub, Saturday June 27, 2009 - 07:01am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for June 17, 2009
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Things are going well for me considering how rocky things were the last 8 years (Peritoneal dialysis, Hernia, Peritonitis, emergency hemo dialysis, transplant, abdominal abscessess, and then losing my site's domain name, and the passing of 3 good friends and losing my job).
I am in good spirits though because my transplant started to work after 7 weeks and over a year later it is still working well! I am feeling great and looking to go back to work (with the economy it has been slow however).
Still engaged (marriage put on hold for financial reasons) and my man is so very supportive of me and so patient. He is amazing. I am so lucky to have him!
He helps me run my new site at http://kidneykorner.com along with helping me implement really good security on the forums at http://KidneyKorner.com/smfbb/
Well I hope everyone is doing well!Wednesday June 17, 2009 - 06:46am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for December 07, 2007
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I finally got my kidney transplant after 6 years of waiting!
I got the call Sept 29th 2007 just after 2pm and got the transplant in London ON Sept 30th 2007! It took almost 2 months to "wake up" as my Blood Pressure dropped dangerously low causing the kidney to be deprived of Oxygen and Blood during and after surgery. This caused what is called Acute Tubular Necrosis (death of the tubules in the kidney) and things didn't look good. I had to still do lots of HemoDialysis as seen in the pic and gained 22kg of fluid on me which made it very very hard to move around. There was a time when I was wondering if I had made a mistake accepting this kidney. The surgery was extremely hard to recover from! Nothing like my first transplant where only my lungs started to collapse .. This time was harder.
But 2 weeks ago (in Dec 2007) the Nephrologist told me that the kidney is doing more and more slowly. Right now it is lowering my Creatinine on its own and now even the Potassium and Phosphate finally! It is still not producing any Erythropoetin so I need to give myself injections subcutaneously in my belly three times a week every week .. but maybe in time that will work too. Sometimes that part never works with kidney transplants. It all depends. This kidney I got is huge as it was from a 60 year old man who died of old age. My brother's girlfriend think she knows the man and is from the area of the transplant hospital and was a farmer. I also met the other recipient of the other kidney from the same man. This guy's kidney is working well for him but he has had some trouble as well.
When we all go to the London transplant hospital it is like a family reunion! I have even run into the "Kidney Kids" from when I had my first transplant as a kid!!
That was so cool! 
If you would like to read more about how it has gone all along for me, check out my forums @ kidneykorner.com/smfbb/ !
Tags: kidneytransplant, Friday December 7, 2007 - 12:07pm (EST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
