This is the day when I start up the research again. Which of the equally horrible sounding options is currently offering the best result?
Dialysis? Nope. Still just a short term solution, and not a very attractive one. The most restrictive of diets, tubes in and out of the arms or the abdomen, anemia, infection, hours and hours of treatment every week.
Transplant? Better long term prognosis but will she be a candidate? Because not everyone is. And then it's up to 20 pills a day for the life of the new kidney. But not my kidney because high blood pressure eliminates me as a candidate. There are all kinds of feelings that brings up but I don't have time for them right now. Also, V says she doesn't want a transplant. She is TERRIFIED of forgetting to take a dose of the anti-rejection medication.
Someone in the UK grew an itty bitty kidney that was able to produce urine. That's a good start. They implanted it into a rat and it have the rat the equivalent of 5% kidney function. Not so good. But maybe, someday...
UCSF just got fast-tracked for clinical trials of an implantable artificial kidney. Fast track = clinical trials in two years. The time line could work. They need money and publicity.
A whole stinky bouquet of un-lovely flowers picked by someone other than me. Thanks.
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