Cyclenall wrote:DaylilyDawn wrote:An Update, My son is now home and has recovered from the infection that sent into the hospital. It was a respiratory infection he caught after a kid coughed in his face one day at his job.
A kid doing that led to all of this? How does your family view this individual currently and does the kid know just how much trouble he's caused doing something so dispirited ? If a kid did that to me, they would be regretting it real fast. I hate it enough when people sneeze or cough near me just by common human operations but if someone did it on purpose, God help me control myself.
DaylilyDawn wrote:But that infection set off the rejection of the transplanted kidney. He is back on peritoneal dialysis and is slowly gaining back the weight he lost while sick. Right now he is at 88 lbs. He still needs to gain about 7 more pounds to get back to his normal weight . He is a very light weight man. He has never weighed more than 98 lbs in his entire life. And for him to lose 10 lbs or more leaves him looking like a walking skeleton.
Very few adults are that light, I'm just curious if that is related in any way to the kidney problems?DaylilyDawn wrote:He will be putting his name back on the Organ Transplant list. And since he is on dialysis and has weight restrictions against lifting , he can't go back to work at his job.
Not to make light of this at all, but I don't think he would want to go back to his job after that incident. I know I wouldn't even if I had a good placement. Sending best wishes to your son and I hope he gets better soon.
My son has never weighed more than 98 lbs in his life. he started life weighing 3 lbs 7 1/2 ozs he was never a fast grower, His pediatric chart had all the same peaks and valleys as a normal weight kid. The normal weight kids chart would be at the top of the chart, my son's would be on the bottom of the chart. Kidney disease he was born with affected his growth . He also has a high metabolism that burns the weight off.