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Kidney for Tarik

A page to educate people about becoming a living kidney donor and provide updates for Tarik’s battle

02/10/2025

Blessed to be celebrating two milestones today!
1 year - Kidney
4 years - work anniversary

06/01/2024

May was an adventure! Early May spent a weekend in the hospital, but started to feel more like my old self again! So grateful for the partnership ❤️ and support at home. Let’s go June!!! I’m ready!

05/18/2024

The mystery infection was cleared, and by prioritizing hydration, nutrition, rest, and exercise (with prayers), Thursday's lab results were the best yet! 🙏

05/05/2024

Spent the majority of the weekend in the hospital. I felt pretty good but had a fever with little known cause, so they kept me overnight. Yet another challenge faced and completed. Very grateful to be home!

04/20/2024

Consider this! if everyone on the kidney transplant list were to gather for a big meeting of Warriors… No basketball arena, concert venue, or NFL stadium would be able to accommodate the group. Only the largest few college football stadiums could. This is one of them!

04/02/2024

It was really cool to see the Mayo building lit up this way to raise awareness to organ donation!

03/05/2024

So day 24 with the new kidney is here and after the biopsy and ultrasound we are still not seeing kidney functioning as we had hoped. The transplant team is all over the situation, but are escalating things to a critical care team. This includes bringing the surgeons, the transplant doctors and nurses and almost everyone who has touched the case. They are also reaching out to see how the recipient of the other kidney is doing (who wasn’t at the same hospital). While this sounds alarming, it isn’t entirely unusual. However, the doctors are taking it seriously as they look at multiple ultrasounds… comparing day 0 biopsy with day 19 biopsy… labs from every other day etc. The good news is is no dialysis again today… last dialysis was on 2/29. So that too is positive.

Thank you for continuing the prayers 🙏

03/01/2024

New way of living!

02/28/2024

Labs before sunrise 4 out of 5 days this week. Biopsy and ultrasound of the new kidney planned for tomorrow (as well as dialysis). All of this is relatively “normal” for this stage of the transplant as we patiently wait for kidney function to improve. Thank you for thoughts and prayers… support has been amazing!

02/22/2024

Today would have been my 61st dialysis treatment. But we learned yesterday from labs that everything seems to be settling in nicely and I won’t need to go today. That’s a great milestone in the recovery!

Movement is up too! Yesterday I managed over 7,000 steps.

Biggest challenge is the Covid-like isolation. I wear a mask in/out of Mayo. But otherwise I’m sheltered in place. You all remember what that was like 🤣.

Prayers continue to be answered and I am so grateful to be where I am.

02/20/2024

Everyone remembers playing battleship. This is a lot how balancing medication for immune suppression to avoid organ transplant rejection.

After some “misses” last week, I am pleased to say I think we had a major “hit” yesterday. Through some dosage adjustments made yesterday I had the best night of sleep, and woke up feeling better today.

Thank you all again for continued prayers (it’s working!). I’m starting to feel like myself again.🙏

02/17/2024

Received a new T-shirt in the mail today! Grinding my way through the healing process… but labs are looking better each time!

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Phoenix, AZ

Website

https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/living-donor-transplantation/overview/ovc-20545462

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