Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The unsuccesful Transplant story


This guy serial of misery started 5 years ago. He is just 22 years old at that time. Both of his kidneys betrayed him and suddenly stopped functioning leaving him to no choice but to continue his life with dialysis. Meaning that he had to spent 3 times a week for 4 hours attached himself to the dialysis machine. I believe it 's not an enjoyable things to do. His mother, made a big sacrifice and give on of her kidney to him so that he can have a better quality of life. They both went the big operation without much complication but the stories does not end here. The transplanted kidney work as all of us wish. He goes home with multiple anti-rejection drugs to prevent rejection.

Then the nightmare begin. Six month after successful transplant, he started to have complication following anti-rejection (also called immuno-suppression). These anti rejection drug causes semi-paralysis of human normal immune system and subsequently cause host i.e patient easily infected by bacterial, viral or fungal. He came with a very bad lung infection and nearly died. I believe it must be her mother pray who saved him (apart from our medication). He managed to get through it for the second time (the first time was during the operation) and walk home safe.

Then he came again with second and then third very bad bad lung infection leaving his lung full of scarred tissue (which is no good because it reduce his lung function). The next infection will make it even worse. His lungs almost totally damage and the next thing he might need in the near future is lung transplant, but who is going to be the donor? How about you?

Now, considering he need the anti-rejection drugs for the kidney donated by his mother to work and balancing the side effect cause by those drug i.e severe life thretening infection, it's really a though decision to be made. Either to sacrifice the kidney given by his mother or his own lungs/life? Only God know the best....

6 comments:

-ursecretadmire- said...

juz wanna 2 b sure...is this case referring to the cute chinese guy???da 1 'u know who' fav?

HappyDoc.com said...

good guess he he

-ursecretadmire- said...

i know him very well...there was a day when some 'tersalah maklumat' an ampho b given within an hour n da pt get acute reaction n 'u know who' get hell mad!kuang3...

-ursecretadmire- said...

everytime he admitted 2 da ward...hell...take quite a long time to discharge...but he's a strong guy...

dr muthiah said...

fuh 1st tyme droppin by
and it's not bad have my minutes 'wasted' here.

jazakallah happydoc for the post :)

uviditelno ocen!
-russian doc

Dora The Explorer said...

wondering what are the decisions he made. did he survived anyway?