5 years ago tonight
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 04:09 last edited by
Was that the photo of Jon either kissing or being kissed on the cheek by . . . the other guy? Great shot!
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 04:10 last edited by
Improv got the shot. He’ll probably magically show up and post it any minute now. lol
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 07:47 last edited by
Oh.
Re-reading that made me so nostalgic. I really miss all those people.
Jon, congratulations on your 5 year anniversary.
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 10:02 last edited by Klaus
Wow. Almost everything seems to have changed within five years. For instance, Mik wrote at the time:
He's young, strong and smart.
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 10:06 last edited by
Has anything significant about treatment options changed/improved in the last 5 years? Is kidney failure an issue at this point?
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 10:18 last edited by
Not really and yes. I’m already at stage 3 CKD. It’s very common for lung transplant patients to need a kidney at some point.
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 11:20 last edited by
Congratulations!
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@lufins-dad said in 5 years ago tonight:
5 years is actually a huge mark for transplants, isn’t it?
It’s not an out-of-the-woods sign like with some cancers. The risk of dying from infection or rejection is pretty stable and pretty material year after year.
Lung transplants have the worst prognosis of all the solid organ transplants. Median survival is something like 5.8 years. I should do much better than that though.
wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 12:08 last edited by@jon-nyc said in 5 years ago tonight:
Lung transplants have the worst prognosis of all the solid organ transplants. Median survival is something like 5.8 years. I should do much better than that though.
I may have mentioned this to Jon, or perhaps posted publicly....
About 6 years ago, I was giving "anesthesia" for an organ harvest. If someone was an organ donor, a team would come from one of the teaching transplant centers in Chicago, and harvest the organs that were suitable for transplant. My job was to keep the patient "alive" - hemodynamically stable and well oxygenated while they took the organs that needed a blood supply. Once they clamped the aorta, and the heart stopped, I was done, and I'd leave. The team would spend another couple of hours after I'd gone.
Anyhow, the surgeon was a pleasant lady from Northwestern. After I was "relieved," and she was waiting for someone else to harvest the liver, I believe, I pulled her aside and told her that I have a friend who needs a lung transplant, and told her the disease.
"So, how do these folks do?"
"⅓. ⅓. ⅓," she said. "One out of three do great ( ~ five years), one out of three do so-so, with multiple relapses/rejections, and one out of three do crappy."
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 13:01 last edited by
Wow. Five years already. Our Jon will chart new territory for his own version of a long hauler, living an extraordinary number of years post transplant.
Congrats, Jon! Here's to many more years.
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Was that the photo of Jon either kissing or being kissed on the cheek by . . . the other guy? Great shot!
wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 13:27 last edited by@catseye3 said in 5 years ago tonight:
Was that the photo of Jon either kissing or being kissed on the cheek by . . . the other guy? Great shot!
Wow 10+ years, how time flies. And yes, Jon was kissing me on the cheek.
I still haven't washed that cheek.
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 13:29 last edited by
5 years. So incredible. I remember the thread, but maybe not here, on the other board? I don’t remember what I was doing (but we had just moved to Maine, so I was probably overwhelmed).
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 13:38 last edited by
I just remember that for a couple of days, all of us were holding our collective breath waiting/praying/hoping to hear. I also remember thinking that Rachel must have really had it rough. And then wonderful news.
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I just remember that for a couple of days, all of us were holding our collective breath waiting/praying/hoping to hear. I also remember thinking that Rachel must have really had it rough. And then wonderful news.
wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 13:46 last edited by@kluurs said in 5 years ago tonight:
I just remember that for a couple of days, all of us were holding our collective breath waiting/praying/hoping to hear. I also remember thinking that Rachel must have really had it rough. And then wonderful news.
+1
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wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 15:32 last edited by
I was on a break from the internet (and pretty much all contact with the outer world) at the time bush camping in BC. I actually didn't find out about the surgery until around Xmas time when it was mentioned in passing on another thread.
The main thing is that you, Jon, have done remarkably well healing and adapting to your new lease on life. Congratulations to you and your family.
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Wow. Five years already. Our Jon will chart new territory for his own version of a long hauler, living an extraordinary number of years post transplant.
Congrats, Jon! Here's to many more years.
wrote on 16 Jul 2021, 20:54 last edited by@brenda said in 5 years ago tonight:
Wow. Five years already. Our Jon will chart new territory for his own version of a long hauler, living an extraordinary number of years post transplant.
Congrats, Jon! Here's to many more years.
here here!
