Life Saver Last Valentines Day, Mountain Area residents Sheila - TopicsExpress



          

Life Saver Last Valentines Day, Mountain Area residents Sheila Moreno and Eric Wynne underwent surgery at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Eric donated a kidney to Sheila, who had reached Stage 5 Renal Failure. At that point, her kidneys were functioning at about 11%, she was chronically fatigued, had continuous back pain, had trouble concentrating and suffered from memory loss. During the kidney transplant, known as a donor nephrectomy, surgeons used a minimally-invasive technique to remove Erics left kidney, which was passed to Sheila. Now my kidneys are functioning at 75% and all my lab numbers are good, Sheila said. While the doctors dont expect my new kidney to reject, there is that possibility at any time for up to three years. Its a constant concern, but I cant dwell on it. Read more... sierrastar/2014/04/22/67350/life-saver.html
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

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