{"id":13,"date":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotafordash\/2020\/09\/17\/nephrology-appointments-pre-transplant\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"nephrology-appointments-pre-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/2020\/09\/17\/nephrology-appointments-pre-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Nephrology appointments: Pre-Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3144.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>Up until my kidney transplant, I&rsquo;ve had twice monthly or monthly nephrology appointments since I was born. I have gotten my labs drawn every two weeks, sometimes more frequently, my entire life. We were able to remain off dialysis with a combination of medications and dietary restrictions\/modifications.<br \/>My parents had to give me nightly shots of growth hormone for nearly a year. They also gave me weekly shots of EPO for a year and a half for my anemia. This was the worst!!!<br \/>Once I was long enough and weighed enough to be eligible for transplant, I had to attend a two day education class, have 30mls of blood drawn (that&rsquo;s a lot for a little guy), chest x-ray, EKG, and what felt like a million other tests. The doctors have a giant meeting the first Wednesday of every month and discuss upcoming transplants. I had qualified for a kidney transplant March 4th, 2020.<br \/>Then, the world shut down&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3145.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3146.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3147.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3148.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3149.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3151.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3153.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3152.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until my kidney transplant, I&rsquo;ve had twice monthly or monthly nephrology appointments since I was born. I have gotten my labs drawn every two weeks, sometimes more frequently, my entire life. We were able to remain off dialysis with a combination of medications and dietary restrictions\/modifications.My parents had to give me nightly shots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}