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Preparing for Your Kidney Transplant

This comprehensive guide provides valuable information on physical, social, financial, emotional, and logistical preparations for a kidney transplant, ensuring a smooth and successful recovery.

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Preparing for Your Kidney Transplant

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  1. Preparing for Your Kidney Transplant Silke Niederhaus, MD October 10 ,2015

  2. Physical • Health maintenance • Mammograms, pap smears, PSA screening, cardiac testing, … • Depends on age • Get in shape • Exercise • Eat right

  3. Social • Plan for family or a friend to: • Give you a ride to the hospital • Help out at home • Kids • Cats • Dogs • Plants • Mail • Snow removal

  4. Financial • Extra medication copays • 7 new drugs compared to dialysis (at least) • Hospital copays • Days lost from work • Sick days, vacation, paid or unpaid FMLA • Money for travel • Rides to your transplant center • Possible overnight stays in hotels

  5. Team • Keep in touch with your pre-transplant coordinator • Hospital admissions or procedures • Starting dialysis • Changes in insurance

  6. Donors • Find a living donor for you • Get others involved • The more people are signed up as donors, the faster the list will get used up, and the faster it will be your turn • Websites • Driver’s license • Tell your family

  7. Emotional

  8. Multi-listing • If you have no living donor • Multiple hospitals • Multiple donor service areas • Need money for travel • May depend on insurance

  9. Recovery • Brace yourself for impact! • Life-changing • First months are really hard • Prepare for some complications • They will happen • Hopefully just a small bump in the road Unhappy

  10. Postop Travel • Possibly to dialysis 3x/week • Possible clinic visits 1-2x/week • Possible readmission • Possible plasmapheresis • Possible other procedures/appointments

  11. Questions?

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