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  • 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: 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 ]

  • Kidney Quest: 24 Hour Urine Collection
    Posted on Friday, May 17th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: humor, kidney transplant, organ donation, pacreatic transplant

    Alan and family today After the phlebotomist took vial after vial after vial of blood, I returned to my siblings in the waiting room, Here I discovered the problems of leaving my brothers and sisters unattended while the vampire (aka phlebotomist) emptied my blood. They read the information about organ donation that Mt. Sinai thought …[ read more ]

  • Kidney Quest: The Story of Organ Donation
    Posted on Saturday, May 11th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Kidney Quest, kidney transplant, organ donation

    My family: Alan far left-back–I’m three to the right of him. A dear friend currently faces failed kidneys –something that happened to my brother, Alan, about ten years ago. In honor of my friend and her quest to find new kidneys, I’d like to take some time to chronicle my own path as an organ donor . My …[ read more ]

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      “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life It's the new year, and of course, you've made resolutions. Do you want to exercise more? Cook healthy meals? Write a book? Have you resolved that this is the year you'd accomplish this? Nearly all of us have already broken our resolves. Why? Because we do what we want to do. Wait, our resolves are our desire, or so we think. Not if you're not doing… ...[ full story ]

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