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  • PJPixie
    PJPixie Posts: 3,026
    BUMPING this Thread to the TOP!!
    All of my thoughts will be with you and your donor tomorrow!
    I know everything will go great!! Looking forward to hearing from you once you're able, which I know will be soon!!
    Peace and love my friend!
    The best use of Life is Love.
    The best expression of Love is Time.
    The best time to Love is Now.


    I'm never as good as when you're there.........
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Hello fellow pearl jam fanatics, everywhere.
    Great success with my new kidney, working fine, cleaning blood and making urine !
    My living donor Kevin was released today, and they're talking about releasing me on Monday! Unbelievable!
    Wanted to thank everyone for well wishes and prayers, updates to follow.........
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
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    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    Hello fellow pearl jam fanatics, everywhere.
    Great success with my new kidney, working fine, cleaning blood and making urine !
    My living donor Kevin was released today, and they're talking about releasing me on Monday! Unbelievable!
    Wanted to thank everyone for well wishes and prayers, updates to follow.........


    so stoked for you ..thats awesome!!!

    hey maybe the kidney is the blueshirts good luck charm!!!!


    feel great buddy!!
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    Hello fellow pearl jam fanatics, everywhere.
    Great success with my new kidney, working fine, cleaning blood and making urine !
    My living donor Kevin was released today, and they're talking about releasing me on Monday! Unbelievable!
    Wanted to thank everyone for well wishes and prayers, updates to follow.........

    YES! SUCH AWESOMENESS!!!

    :D:D:D:D:D:D



    superbean's doing the happy dance too ;)
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    God bless the superbeans, everywhere !

    ;-)
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
    platessmall.jpg
    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    Really pleased to hear the good news! :D
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    God bless the superbeans, everywhere !

    ;-)


    awww..yeah...indeed! ;)

    enjoy the painkiller button doorbell thingy while it lasts :D

    pssst... :lol: check your pm's
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    Hello fellow pearl jam fanatics, everywhere.
    Great success with my new kidney, working fine, cleaning blood and making urine !
    My living donor Kevin was released today, and they're talking about releasing me on Monday! Unbelievable!
    Wanted to thank everyone for well wishes and prayers, updates to follow.........

    He's back! Congratulations! SO HAPPY for you!!!!!
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,214
    amazing :D
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    AWESOME!

    God bless both you and Kevin, and good health to both of you for many years to come.

    What great news!
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Might be released today, waiting on the various transplant teams and surgeons to make their rounds.
    Breakfast was pretty bad but hey at least it's solid food, and finally( as bad as it was ) a cup of coffee!
    I hope everyone has saved the date
    Friday , March 18th for the benefit in my and Kevins behalf, at the Inwood Bucaneer Clubhouse on Lawrence Avenue in Inwood ( 5 Townes ), Food will be served and it's BYOB, with raffles, and silent auctions as well as music.  A good night with great people! Hopefully Kevin and I will both have. Recovered enough to both attend to be with you all,
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
    platessmall.jpg
    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    My new kidney is working beautifully. I am making urine and my Creatine ( protein ) levels are below 2.2 .
    The new kidney is tucked neatly away on my lower left abdomen and all the vascalature is connected to my left femoral artery.
    The incision is clean small and crisp.They did a wonderful job, it's a miracle!
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
    platessmall.jpg
    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    It really is a miracle, what a wonderful thing for someone to do for someone else. There’s no greater gift than the gift of life!

    It just makes me all giddy inside :D
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    PureandEasy wrote:
    It really is a miracle, what a wonderful thing for someone to do for someone else. There’s no greater gift than the gift of life!

    It just makes me all giddy inside :D

    Amen.
    1 more night in this place.
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
    platessmall.jpg
    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    awesome news bathy
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Going home this afternoon !
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
    platessmall.jpg
    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    Bathgate66 wrote:
    Going home this afternoon !
    :D
    >>>>
    >
    ...a lover and a fighter.
    "I'm at least half a bum" Rocky Balboa

    http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Message-To-American-Indians

    Edmonton, AB. September 5th, 2005
    Vancouver, BC. April 3rd, 2008
    Calgary,AB. August 8th, 2009
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    ♥
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Home Sweet Home ! Great to sleep in my own bed, breathing that beautiful salty Rockaway air !
    My new kidney is functioning normally, making urine, and maintaining a desirable Creatine level
    ( 2 ) which the doctors assure me will go down even further as time progresses.

    My new blood brother Kevin is home with his sister and recovering beautifully as well. What a guy, to give me the gift of a dialysis-free life. No more cramping, no more shifting of fluids,no more sticking thick needles into my forearm and no more sitting anchored to that damn blood cleaning machine, 3 hours at a time 3 times a week .

    Thank You Kevin ! ! !


    I am on an intensive immuno-supression regimen.

    Myfortic 2 pills, 2 x daily, 12 hours apart.

    Prograf 7 pills, 2x daily, also 12 hours apart.
    They want me to hold these back on the days I go for bloodwork, until the blood levels have been drawn, then I take the dosage .

    Bactrum 1 pilll daily in the AM .

    Mycostatin suspension to keep thrush out of my mouth and esophogus .

    Valcyte anti viral 1 pill daily in the AM .

    My usual insulin regimen for my diabetes.

    Oh and of course theyve given me a script for Vicadins for pain management.

    Again Id like to thank everyone for their kind words of support and prayers. There have been so many from here in the Pearl Jam community who extended themselves, I really really appreciate it all. Thank You.
    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
    platessmall.jpg
    ORGAN DONATION SAVES LIVES
    http://www.UNOS.org
    Donate Organs and Save a Life
  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    Glad you're doing well :D
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