Originally posted by eyelikeart
A good friend of my mom's had a kidney donation from her husband. She's got lupus, and has been thru a lot in the past 10 years or so.
She had the transplant 5 or 6 years ago I think, and earlier this year her body started rejecting it. Sad.
I'm sorry to hear about your Mom's friend eyelikeart. I worked in a Kidney Transplant Unit for about 2 years. We had 2 live donor transplants during my time. Both were sucessful at the time. One was a mother and daughter, the other were brothers. It is actually a more painful surgery for the donor. You can't imagine what a happy time is is to see the urine flowing.
It reminded me of the show that I saw on "NightLine" Friday December 26th. "The Ultimate Gift" it was a live donation, a brother gave 60% of his liver to his brother. There is risk for both in this surgery, unlike with a kidney. For the donor the liver does have great power of regeneration.
They do have a lot of new anti rejection drugs that might help. I pray that she will be successful!
http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline/