From the Chicago Tribune: "The preferred treatment for kidney failure is an organ transplant. But although African-Americans suffer from kidney disease at higher rates than whites, they are less likely to be referred for transplants, less likely to be placed on a waiting list and less likely to get kidneys once on the list, according to a large body of research. With transplant lists growing, it can be daunting for a person of any race to get a life-sustaining kidney. But many African-Americans face additional hurdles—whether it's piecing together insurance to cover expensive anti-rejection drugs or searching for loved ones healthy enough to serve as living donors… The result is a glaring racial disparity in which many black kidney patients remain on dialysis, a treatment associated with lower quality of life and higher death rates."
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the best bet is a healthy family member, not the list. yet another reason to be nice to your blood relatives. i would gladly give a kidney to many of my family members. to one or two of them, i'd have surgery to remove one and throw it in the garbage right in their faces. i'm cold like that.
as for the drugs necessary to avoid rejection, anyone with prescription plan (relatively cheap) will be able to get them for a low price and prescription companies give them away. I'm not sure if many people know about it. You have to have a good doctor or otherwise, go to a hospital with social workers or patient advocates.
For some, they kinda just get tired of it and stop taking the meds. They don't have a great compliance rate though it's very life-or-death. It's probably depression and depression is quite common in people who are essentially terminally ill.
People with lifestyle illnesses are generally less likely to get transplants of any sort. As cold as it may sound, giving priority to those free of mental illnesses and risk factors for rejection (i.e. smoking), people who are sickest and best suited for transplants would get them.
this one hits close to home, my mother needs a kidney.
cosign DAria. DI-MY-E, I hope your mother finds a match.