The First Mate needs a new kidney.

Captain Ed's wife needs a new kidney, and all of our prayers. She had both a kidney and a pancreas transplanted last year, but has been suffering from a viral infection for several weeks.

Captain's Quarters
The doctors informed us today that the FM will need a new kidney and that we probably can't expect too much more function from the current transplant. The average wait for a cadaver donor in this part of the country is four to five years, which means that she'll need to go back on dialysis if the treatment can't recover at least some part of the current transplant's function.

Fortunately at this point, it doesn't appear that she has a problem with the pancreas transplant, so she doesn't have to go back on insulin. She will have to continue with the IV treatments this week, and then she will have to follow up once a week with extra anti-virals for a while. After that, we're hoping that she can stop with the IV treatments and take oral medication in its place. She's exhausted and pretty dispirited about the developments today, but we're hoping that we can get lucky in finding another donor.

Ed and Marsha are wonderful people and they need our prayers. Please, keep them in your hearts.

Comments

[TheAvenger]

Your First Mate and you are in my prayers. I too, was raised a Southern Baptist. I believe.

[ron]

I have a 23 year old son who has had to deal with renal failure he had a kidney transplant from his mom in 2003. Shortly after we discovered that he had Polyoma. His MD is excellent and put him on Lefludimide (Arav Generic) He originally had the highest viral load they had seen, but it decreased fairly quickly. he developed a new cr baseline of 1.9
and had been stable since then. latest check still not active in blood, 2300 in urine. They had taken hin off of one of the drugs he was on Cellcept????? and left him on prograf .,5 mg prednisone and the Lefludimide. Kepping our fingers crossed. The lefludimide is an arthritis drug with antirejection qualities and kills the virus.
If you want more info send me an email to rpl335@cs.com