Living Kidney Donation

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Just thought I would post to update people. My evaluation tests have finished and as far as I am aware they are all okay. I have to see the consultant and independant assessor before approval is sought from the HTA.

However once approval is given (assuming it will be!) and I am put on the donor database things can start moving very quickly. The hospital will not put me on the database until they get my agreement. Now I need to make sure that I have a totally clear calendar free from committments. I need to have uncluttered time for a few weeks after the operation and also make sure that family that will be there to assist me in the early stages afterwards will also be available.

Having made the decision to donate a kidney that is what I am going to do but being unable to anticipate when the evaluation process would actually come to an end various family comittments were made and over next few weeks I will be keeping them.

Also being an altruistic donor means I am donating to a stranger and that is how I want it to stay. I truly believe that recipient and donor should remain anonymous and should I give out information in this blog that would lead the recipient or one of their friends or family to work out that I must be the donor …. well I cannot do that. So I wont be adding to my evaluation/donation process until a while after the donation. At that time I will give full details as to what the procedure was like etc etc. I hope you will understand my reasons for now keeping quiet, what with my committments and the need for total anonymity as far as the recipient is concerned.

I will be making other posts on the blog though so I wont be totally silent. And I will most certainly be back to post about the donation when the time is right.