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Kidney Function Tests - Articles
Test Anxiety Time!
by
Whidbeywoman
Posted
Mon 06 Feb 2012 12:00am
Ron has two days of extensive testing this week. He is not looking forward to it!
First, Ron is having the usual blood work...
Image: Just Chapshunz
Then, a PET scan... Image: Joke of the Day and, what he dreads the most...
a liver/bladder/kidneys functioning test.
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Oh well, we'll ...
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How Are Your Kidneys? March Is National Kidney Month.
by
CK Wilde
Posted
Mon 01 Mar 2010 2:38pm
Did you see the letter today in the Dear Abby newspaper column?
What’s a newspaper? Ok, for those of you who only get your news online you can see Dear Abby at this link .
In today’s Dear Abby column, a woman wrote in to report that she was diagnosed with kidney problems but has them under control and is feeling great. Last year about t ...
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What Could Make you Fit at 50 than you were at 20?
by
Sonzy
Posted
Mon 23 Jan 2012 11:45am
You are healthy and robust in your twenties. Your visible signs of aging may start as early as 30 or late enough not to worry. But health deteriorates by the time you cross your forties. And fifties are spend at the doctor’s office mostly trying to prevent, diagnose and treat problems. This is the reality we know about. However, some ...
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Kidney-versary #4 (And Other News)
by
Nathan M.
Posted
Sat 15 Jan 2011 7:33am
Guess what? I remembered that I have a blog! I'm sure you're all very excited. I look forward to my hit counter jumping by at least one point this week. I'm sorry that it's been a while since I have blogged, but I think my time has been concentrated elsewhere for the last year :)
Post-Transplant Lab: October 07, 2010
As you can se ...
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Caring For A Patient With Kidney Failure
by
Shelly V.
Posted
Fri 17 Feb 2012 6:17am
by Shelly Verma, ContributingWriter
When it was first diagnosed, I found it very difficult to accept the fact that my father had kidney failure. After his bypass surgery, he suffered from a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) for more than a year. We did not realize that this was the beginning of the end of his kidneys. He would have trouble whe ...
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Debut
by
Allison Ward
Posted
Fri 11 Sep 2009 2:16pm
So this is my first official blog post and it is a little long (OK a lot long). I know that there are a lot of people that care about me and want to know what it is going on. I also know that I do not always do a very good job of communicating. Ok…I admit….I rarely do a good job of telling people the current health status especially the bad new ...
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Nearing one year
by
GabriellasHeart
Posted
Fri 06 May 2011 1:57pm
A couple weeks ago we went back to Loma Linda for a clinic appointment with our transplant team since we are nearing 1 year post transplant. Gabriella's ECHO function was great and her growth is fantastic! They decided to change all of her immuno-suppressants to new ones. For all those transplant people out there, she was on Neoral Cyclosporine ...
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Kala is Testing
by
Nathan M.
Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 11:39am
Today is Wednesday, November 01, 2006, and I just got an e-mail this morning from Kala, my next potential donor. Her testing was scheduled to begin yesterday, and she has a few results already.
Here is her e-mail to me, and I will explain anything strange at the end:
“I got the results from my Gl ...
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6 month follow up
by
GabriellasHeart
Posted
Wed 24 Nov 2010 6:24pm
We just got back from a 5 day trip to Loma Linda for Gabriella's 6 month follow up appointments. We were in Arizona 52 days before returning, and it felt like forever, until I pulled up to Redlands, California and felt like we never left. I truly love it there...
Everything looks great with Gabriella! She had kidney function testing, in w ...
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