My nephrologist was the one doing rounds today. I believe they have three nephrologists in the medical practice but one of them is my actual doctor, i.e., the one that I see if I go into their offices. I’ve been seeing her prior to starting dialysis so it’s been more than three years. She speaks Cantonese and Mandarin with an accent but we converse in English.
I gave her an update of the whole UCLA situation. She knows the rest of the story since she has been my nephrologist since I started the transplant process at St. Joseph Hospital back in 2016. She agrees that typically if you have a willing live donor, you should be able to get the transplant within months, not years. However, she did have a patient that had 4 volunteers to donate a kidney but for one reason or another, they were all eventually rejected. The patient ended up getting a deceased donor kidney after seven years on the transplant list. Ugh… that’s terrible. If UCLA rejects my sister, I don’t have any more live donors and can only look forward to 4+ more years of dialysis, waiting for a deceased donor if I stay listed in Southern California.
Life with chronic diseases 