I met a person after a kidney transplant and now what!

7 czerwca, 2024
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olahola
Hi, yes here I keep writing about myself and only myself, how about giving you something useful for once? Today about the basic knowledge of kidney transplantation, which everyone should know. You will ask-why? First of all, it is intelligent people (and I believe I have only such readers;)) who should have a wide range of knowledge. Secondly, you never know who you will meet on your way, so it’s better to be prepared, and thirdly, you never know what you or your loved ones may face.

Scene 1: Your son brings a girl home for the first time in 25 years. Everyone is quietly celebrating, they can’t believe that first of all, she really exists, and secondly, she seems quite nice. In the course of conversation you learn that she is a kidney transplant. And bang! You don’t stress about what to do in such a situation, because after all, you know olahola’s blog and you know what to do and what not to do!

WHAT DON’T YOU DO?
-You don’t add grapefruit to the fruit tray. Transplant patients take a lot of medications on a permanent basis. And seriously so permanently, because from the first day of transplant until the last, and probably on dialysis they will take some other powders. Most drugs, and certainly immunosuppressants (that is, drugs that prevent the body from rejecting the kidney) interact with grapefruit, which increases their concentration in the blood.

WHAT DO YOU DO?
-Make sure there is a pitcher of water on the table. Transplant recipients need to drink a lot (about 2.5-3l) so that the kidney has a good working environment

Scene 2: You are in the office. Your colleague/room-mate who is post-transplant is complaining about a headache. You are a very helpful person, so you want to help her.

WHAT DO YOU NOT DO?
-You don’t offer ibuprofen. Ibum and drugs of the same active substance are harmful to the kidneys. Admittedly, nothing will happen after taking one tablet, but it’s worth keeping in the back of your mind that ibuprofen is harmful to the kidneys (not just for transplant patients!).

WHAT DO YOU DO?
-You offer a glass of water and optional apap (paracetamol)

Scene 3: Your colleague/friend is a transplant recipient. You learn that she/he is currently having health problems, her/his results are worse than before.

WHAT DON’T YOU DO?
-I don’t recommend writing every day if something has changed.
-I don’t recommend writing every other day how you feel. 
-I don’t recommend writing that everything will be fine.
-I don’t recommend stepping into the role of a coach and giving advice on how to deal with a difficult situation.

WHAT DO YOU DO?
– “You survey the area”. If you sense that the person is writing you back in a perfunctory manner about his or her condition-this may indicate that he or she currently does not want to talk about it.
-You tell them how you are doing. People whose performance is deteriorating and without additional questions relatively often think about it. Maybe just telling about how your day went (including the most trivial matters) will keep the person occupied with something else for a while.
-And sometimes you just keep quiet. The fact that you want to help someone or even find out what’s wrong with that person doesn’t always mean that the person needs it. It is worth giving a moment’s respite if the other party does not show any desire to make contact and speak up after some time:)

It is known that the first two scenes refer to facts. Please interpret the third one less literally, because although in my opinion these are universal truths, they do not have to be so for everyone;)

Let me know if anything surprised you, or maybe what else you would add:D

P.S. Nowadays you have to explain the jokes so I prefer to warn you that the scenes are exaggerated. It’s not always when your colleague at work has a headache that you have to offer her a powder right away, because maybe she just got a headache from your talking:D

Take care,
Olahola xo
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