very curious!!

[kathy809]

im father who is 54 yrs old has had diabetes for the past i would say 20 years and now about 6 to 7 months ago is health has just gone down hill. At first he started off with high blood pressure and cholesterol now it has become really bad he has been in and out of hospitals ever sence. he even had to go to my country to see if they could of helped him over there but with no luck.i guess that of taking so much medication the doctors messed up his kidneys now hes been in hemodialyisis for the past month.
my question is if lets say i want to donate one of my kidneys to him does he have to still keep going to hemodialyisis?
and would u recomend that?
im 20 years old if that helps.

[Dot.Calm]

Unfortunately there are no doctors on the Diabetes forum, although one may stop by once in a great while to answer a post. It seems your question regards kidney donation not diabetes so the best bet is to post on the Urology forum where Dr Kevin Pho moderates.
Good luck.

[kathy809]

thank u

[LLWB]

If you donated a kidney, no, he wouldn't need dialysis, if everything went right, and the donation wasn't rejected. You have to have a lot of tests before to make sure you are a good match, but it does work. One of my ministers at church was donated a kidney by his daughter. He also suffered kidney failure from complications of diabetes. Good luck, and what a wonderful gift to your father if it works out.