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  • Kidney Quest: Hurry Up and Wait: Interlude
    Posted on Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Interlude, Kidney Quest, Waiting

    Mt. Sinai Hospital is renowned for making clients wait. Lugging my gallon jug of urine, my mother and I arrived for my 8:30 appointment. That’s a.m., as in having to leave the house by 6:30. Other patients already filled the seats in the reception area. We approached the desk, gave our names and were told, …[ read more ]

  • Kidney Quest: Save the Urine–Part 2
    Posted on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Kidney Quest, save the urine, twenty-four hour urine test

    A container suitable for the 24 hour urine test! One of the tests needed to determine the viability of a donor is the twenty-four hour urine test. You can see all the details in the previous blog–just scroll down. This came with several undoable stipulations: all urine had to go directly into the prescribed bottle …[ read more ]

  • Kidney Quest: Save the Urine
    Posted on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 24 hour urine collection, Creatinine, Kidney, Kidney Quest, Mount Sinai, organ donation

    Not a big enough bottle for the 24 hour urine test Sunday, October 12, 2003, the day before the barrage of testing, I began the dreaded twenty-four hour urine collection. Why must we collect a full day’s worth? This test is a more accurate measure of creatinine levels. Since creatinine is a muscle by-product, the more …[ read more ]

  • Kidney Quest: Avoiding Dialysis
    Posted on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: dialysis, Kidney, Kidney Quest, Renal function

    A hemodialysis machine, used to physiologically aid or replace the kidneys in renal failure (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Unfortunately, Alan’s kidney function deteriorated to about twelve percent–the point where dialysis is indicated. Transplant results improve if no dialysis occurs, so our five year wait shrunk to a matter of weeks. My brother roofs. That means he spent …[ read more ]

  • Kidney Quest: Matching
    Posted on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Kidney Quest, organ donation, the matching process

    Within a week, as promised, we had the initial results of the typing. The first measure–blood type. Prior to the “Results Show,” the DeFord audience had elected Bob by a vote of 5-1 (guess who had been the lone dissenter?). Only those with A+ blood needed to apply, as that matched Alan. Only Art and …[ read more ]

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    • Your Past Can Be Forgiven: Rahab

      @carol_mcclain Is your past unforgiveable? Definitely not. Consider Rahab, one of the ancestors of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1:5. She was a prostitute. No one chooses this lifestyle. In ancient Israel, women found few avenues of employment. If unmarried or widowed, they very often had to turn to prostitution in order to survive. Who wants to have non-stop sex with strangers? According to the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: [caption id="attachment_2044" align="alignleft" width="200"] No one's fallen so low that God can't redeem.[/caption] "Rahab, who begins as triply marginalized—Canaanite, woman, and prostitute—moves to the center as bearer of a divine message… ...[ full story ]

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