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This is for those of us who take Prograf as a main immune suppressive drug. We can discuss side effects, etc. Or, we can just keep a head count of how many in the community take Prograf.
Saranne Flaherty joined TransplantCafe.com's groupTeam Prograf
This is for those of us who take Prograf as a main immune suppressive drug. We can discuss side effects, etc. Or, we can just keep a head count of how many in the community take Prograf.
Dottie welker commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"So true, but anyone who goes against their doctors advice is playing with fire."
Carlos commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"No point in debating someone with a doctorate in medicine. However, it can be observed that some people do not have to carry hand sanitizer and wet wipes or wear face masks.
Some people have even stopped using antirejection meds. …"
Dottie welker commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"ah ok sorry then since I was questioning it earlier in the thread I felt that it was dirrected towards me and wanted to make sure that there were no misunderstandings. I am sorry you are having an icky day I hope you feel better tomorrow"
Matt Lawson commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"I'm not saying anyone is or should argue with their team. mine was a general comment about a lot of people question their dosages, but wonder why they do. I was on 22 different meds to start with and now down to the 2 critical, tacrolimus and…"
Dottie welker commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"Matt,
im not arguing with my tp team by any means and follow my meds to the T actually my doctors have told me better than a lot of their patients. You have to know that all these meds have their side effects also though and finding a balance is…"
Dottie welker commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"Aww Bobbiejo and Karen thank you for the smile. Just having a day I guess, honestly this is so rare for me but yes I feel much better. Ive been working some crazy hours and not sleeping that great I talked to my husband and he said "thats…"
Matt Lawson commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"If I trust someone to put a new liver inme. I sure am gonna listen to them for the medication advice and not worry if some take 20g or 1mg.....what my team tell me goes. I can interpret my labs but would never change anything myself.... Dont worry…"
Bobbiejo Winfrey commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"Dear Dottie,
I hope your day surprises you with the delight of a blooming hope or some new reason to smile. Dealing with all the medications and insurance issues can be stressful and frustrating at times even in what seems should be a simple matter.…"
Dottie welker commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"Yea my tax advisor told me that the fine would be 500 this coming year and 1000 the year after based upon the info he had at the time. sometimes .... very rarely..... i wonder if it's all worth it.
guess I don't feel good at all today ...."
TransplantCafe.com left a comment for Rachel Gorham"Welcome to Transplant Cafe Rachel. Glad to have you here. Have fun looking around the site and making new friends.
Nelson"
David Goodman commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"Up until last year, I had BCBS, now Medicaid. I pay more (co-pays) with Medicaid, than with BCBS, but my insurance is less, so it's a little bit cheaper. Mass healthcare is geared to how much you earn. I haven't had to deal with that, but…"
Dottie welker commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"I dont want to sound rude because that isnt how i mean this but do you have private health insurance or government aid?
I am curious because everything we are hearing is that the cost of private healthcare is gong to go through the roof and I am…"
David Goodman commented on TransplantCafe.com's group Team Prograf"Health care reform will save your life. I live in Massachusetts and we've had "Romneycare," for over a decade. It works very well."
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- Please Select Your Transplant - Or Tell Us How Else You Were Touched by Transplantation:
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- Recipients: In This Space, Feel Free To Write About Those You Are Grateful to for Receiving The Gift Of Life:
- I have so many people to thank for being here today that I would need another website like this one just for them. So, I'll keep it simple:
TransplantCafe.com is dedicated to:
1. My mom, dad, uncle, brother and Kari without whom I would not have lived through the rough times after transplantation.
2. Dr. Imagawa at UCI Medical Center and the entire 1998 Liver Transplant Team who became and will always be family and without whom I (or my mom) wouldn't have lived through surgery.
3. All donors; living donors, those who register with their state, or country as donors and those who think life for someone else they have never met, when the life of their loved one is taken away.
4. My donors Jack and Ruth for the gift of life at a time when life was taken from them with the sudden death of their son Gary.
5. To you, the transplant recipient for being a great example of the human will to live and showing the world how successful transplantation can be.
6. Lastly, to the world itself which still needs our help to change it's attitude towards donation.
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- About Me: Please use this space to tell the community about you and your unique experience with transplantation:
- My name is Nelson. I'm a Liver transplant recipient since 1998. I had to have an emergency life saving liver transplant after I had been prescribed a thyroid medication (by a well meaning doctor) to which I had an allergic reaction causing me fulminate liver failure.
My experience with transplantation was a bit different than with most recipients who unfortunately have to wait a long time to receive their transplant. I had no idea I needed a transplant until after I woke up with a new liver. It was a weird feeling suddenly waking up into a whole new paradigm without prior knowledge of needing a transplant until after transplantation.
Transplantation has brought me a lot of amazing experiences and friendships that I would not want to be without today if it meant not having ever had my transplant. Having a transplant has allowed me to see great places like France for the World Transplant Games in 2003 and many US cities with the US Transplant Games, with more games and travel on the horizon.
It was those experiences and friendships that inspired TransplantCafe.com. It was an idea that evolved from a simple thought to author some sort of "fun things having a transplant will allow you to do more of or faster" type of manual or book. Being an Internet marketer, it was easy to see that "web2.0" and user generated content social networking would serve the transplant community much more.
I hope you'll enjoy the site and make TransplantCafe.com your new home to connect and share your experience with the transplant community and the world!
Nelson
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Patient returns to Keck Hospital April 5 during special event supporting organ donation
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A man who has made it his life mission to raise awareness about organ donation is returning to Keck Hospital of USC, where, 10 years ago, he received a life-saving lung transplant. And when he comes April 5, Bill Widen will bring with him his Donate Life car. Widen drives the…
New York is facing a crisis - Nearly 10,000 New Yorkers are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant
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NY is facing a crisis. Nearly 10,000 New Yorkers are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. However, only 19% of the adult population is enrolled to be an organ donor (as compared to the national average of 43%). As a result, every 15 hours, another New Yorker dies waiting for an organ.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Did you know that just one organ donor alone can save up to eight lives? If you think about this in terms of the typical family, the number eight…
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Continue Science Fiction and the Evolution of Transplantation..
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Science Fiction and the Evolution of Transplantation..
Since the beginning of modern organ and tissue transplantation those of us who have ever needed a transplant or currently need one, have relied on mainly two different factors to receive our life saving gifts.
These are the selfless generosity of a grieving family that has lost a loved one and who must make the decision to give just hours and sometimes only minutes into their…
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- At 2:33pm on June 28, 2012,
Gina DeLorenzo said… Thanks so much!
- At 6:30am on June 15, 2012,
elaine dufault said… Time to enjoy the sunny weather today after all the rain. Ejoy life.
- At 9:54am on August 30, 2011,
Jay Robare said… - I have been trying to post an animated happy birthday on Karen Weddicks page but the .gif file doesn't work anymore, is there a trick?
- At 1:01am on August 26, 2011,
TC AdminKaren Weddick said…
- At 10:16pm on August 15, 2011,
Isidoritarc said… Hola Nelson, todos mis cariños para ti, acá en Chile estamos trabajando duro, te cuento que estamos creando una nueva entidad capaz de dar apoyo a quienes más lo necesiten, lo mismo en Argentina junto a German Montenegro que también pertenece a tu adorable cafetería, deseanos suerte, se nos viene mucho trabajo. Gracias por inspirarnos mi buen amigo!
Te deseo lo mejor sobre todo en la salud, tu amiga la chilena :)
- At 3:26pm on June 20, 2011,
Tara Yasmin Jones said… Thankyou for your kind welcome , cant believe it has takenme this long to find a site like this, it will be great to hear and chat to others about they're stories!
Tara
- At 7:55pm on May 10, 2011, Isidoritarc said…
Amigo queridoooo tanto tiempo, había estado con poco tiempo por el trabajo, pero igualmente feliz ya que tengo la oportunidad de destinar un día de la semana para trabajar en una escuela intrahospitalaria que trabaja con niños enfermos de cáncer y también Insuficiencia Renal crónica entre otras, imaginate!, poder compartir con los niños que más lo necesitan y los que más disfrutan estudiando. Ahora ya con el tiempo más organizado estaré de vuelta.
Te mando un fuerte abrazo desde la distancia, pero con el cariño de siempre.
- At 10:02pm on April 10, 2011,
Sunil Khanal said… - Thank you so much Sir, i found so many things from here. So many people i have meet..They always encourage me to do something..And they give their company while in my pain.
I was total frustration after my Transplant but now i feel good to communicate so many people and days are being good for me..
Thank you so much again, it's all because of your good work..
With Respect
Sunil Khanal
Kathmandu,Nepal
- At 2:08pm on February 25, 2011, Arleen Dodson gave TransplantCafe.com a gift…
Happy February, we used to celebrate this month with red ribbons, to teach the kids JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS, and also it was heart awareness mont
- At 8:12pm on February 23, 2011, Lili Feldman gave TransplantCafe.com a gift…
- At 4:35pm on February 5, 2011,
Jueregen ZADROCK said… When I had my breathing tube removed the FIRST words out of my mouth were,"WHO the F**K do you mother-F***ers thin you are?!!?!?!"
Before my Tx I was very meek-manared and quiet. But this "new" me was not "me". I never cussed at alll splaeon a "M-F" is ot something would feel comfortable with; yet the words flowed off my tongue as if I'd been driving a truch for decades now! AND I was not embarrassed at all!!
I think this was from "cell-memory"; memories from the doner who was liberal with his loose tongue! After weeks of abuse and after-thought I HAD to apologize to my doctors and nurses for my uncommon behavior and vocabulary!!!!
I do believe in "cell=memory" as many other unusual things have happened that normally would NOT have happened during "MY" life!!!!!!
- At 4:14pm on January 24, 2011, Isidoritarc said…
- Muakkkk!
- At 10:37am on January 21, 2011,
Suzanne said… Thanks to you for all my wonderful friends on here! I am happy to be connected to you. XX OO
- At 7:10am on January 21, 2011, Suzanne gave TransplantCafe.com a gift…
- At 10:06am on December 31, 2010,
Kimberly Munoz said… - Hello! Thank You for sharing me on FB :) I love new blog readers, Im glad you like it! Wishing you nothing but the best in 2011! Happy New Years. Oh and I sent you an email. About my silly email issues. Hope you got it.
- At 10:10pm on December 11, 2010,
Sue R. said… Wishing you all the best this Holiday Season Nelson. May your heart be filled with
joy, peace and happiness as we celebrate the gift of Jesus Christ, our savior's birth.
- At 12:58pm on December 07, 2010, Lili Feldman gave TransplantCafe.com a gift…
- Thank you for your continued support of The Funny Bone. You are my rock. Merry Christmas.
- At 6:27am on November 12, 2010,
Herbert Maldonado said… - Hey thanks for the advice, definitely going to try and give that book a try. I do have some books like Joel Osteen and they do keep me motivated and positive but only sometimes. I guess I have to really put my mind into it to grasp what the author is trying to say.
- At 1:49pm on October 29, 2010,
TC AdminKaren Weddick said… - Well Hello there youself Nelson. I am well and doing just fine as can be. I love all your pictures and enjoyed viewing them. I really wish I could have gone to Australia for that is one place I've always wanted to go. Hope you are well and good hearing from you.
- At 11:45am on October 28, 2010, Sue R. said…
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Arleen Dodson replied to Diana Petersen's discussion How long has your transplanted kidney lasted"I have been blessed I feel, and so I have dedicated my life to singing at church to the Lord since I received the gift of life! I have been in the choir at St. John Vianney church since 1987, we moved here to Hacienda Heights. I was still in it,…"
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