Friday, July 6, 2012

Telling The Story of Kidney Dialysis To Transplant

It will take me a great deal of time to tell you my mother's story. Being a full-time caregiver of a person who is on dialysis and then making the blessed transition to receiving a kidney transplant is not an easy road.
Our journey is seven years long and still going.
I want to tell you the most important thing you can do is keep up your research online not only about medical advances but, also natural health advances. Do not be afraid to ask questions. Do not be afraid to get a second, third, fourth, fifth opinion .

I have learned that most doctors will not give you all of your options, you have to research them and advocate for them.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Perfect Help at Mayo Clinic

While I am updating and gathering the news from my mom's recent transplant annual visit.
I want to take a moment to note something special.
We want to send a special thank you to the Escort Staff in Mayo General Service Transport supervised by  Steve Tibbon. If you do not know what they do, let me tell you, Mayo has several interconnected buildings. They are to name a few : Mayo Clinic, Rochester Medical, Eisenberg, Hilton, Charlton... I can go on and on.


 By the way, they are building more. These great people are dispatched to push people on wheel chairs and hospital beds to all of their clinic appointments.


My mother recently had a long hospitalization related to pnuemonia and her kidneys had temporarily shut down. While she was in Rochester for 31 days. She had the opportunity to see a few regular escorts who took her to all of her appointments. This was one of the times when she was feeling her worst and just terribly ill.

I am mentioning the following three escorts because they were exceptionally kind and patient during her stay. She was very weak and needed extra time to have the strength to be transported.  Lance Ihrke and Micheal Grob were truly wonderful. They made her feel at ease going to her appointments which is important when you do not already feel well. Taking a moment to display kindness and patience can go a long way in helping someone to feel better and less tension. My mother Rita truly appreciates their great demeanor and can't say enough about how wonderful they are.

We have previously written kudos about John Johnson. When my mom was recently an outpatient on this recent  visit ending on 6/27, Mr. Johnson was training a new escort. We are glad that you are choosing your best to be the training example in assisting patients.

Maybe Mr. Tibbon can email a picture of the team to be posted on this blog. jmawriter@yahoo.com

I will be updating in a week to tell you about moms recent visit. We are also cleaning up and changing the appearance of this blog to make it easier to see the happenenings.