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Hello everyone, this is Jeff, Here is the latest update. As you know from Kim’s last post, she is in the hospital getting IV fluids. I will spare the details of dealing with resident doctors that don’t have a clue. Bottom line, she has been on IV fluids since late Monday night. Yesterday, the Creatinine level had gone down slightly, but the doctors wanted to do the kidney biopsy anyway as a precaution. The biopsy was done about 8:00PM last night. Today she woke up and felt terrible. The biopsy results finally came back and show moderate rejection of the new kidney. The doctor and the nurse practitioner assured us that this not uncommon for this to occur, especially with switching the anti-rejection meds like she did. The doctor wants to be aggressive and is putting Kim on a heavy duty immunosuppressant via IV infusion, 3 doses of 10 hrs each – starting tonight. They are also giving her a large dose of steroids. These treatments most of the time stop the rejection. The way she felt the past week, was partly dehydration, but also the beginnings s of the rejection. Unfortunately, she will be in the hospital until Saturday at the minimum. I don’t look forward to telling Devan tonight, as the old soul that he is, he already worries about her. Not much else to say now; just stunned. Please say a prayer for Kim. We will post when we have more to say.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:08:52 +0000

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