Please Pray for TG Omori.

He has battled kidney failure for 1year.His only brother donated a kidney for him and the transplant kidney didn’t work for him. He will have to continue dialysis until he gets another kidney. Most people with kidney failure need 2-3 dialysis sessions per week for them to stay alive.

In Nigeria today, Dialysis is about 80k per session. That’s about 240k a week and 960k a month. This is apart from many miscellaneous expenses that keep coming along. I have not talked about money he will spend on medication and other health expenses he will have in between dialysis. So essentially we are talking about roughly 1.5-2million naira PER MONTH for the person with kidney failure to live optimally on dialysis and stay alive.

Abroad in the UK, Dialysis done privately is about £300 per session. So this is a no-brainer except you are a millionaire in pounds. Patients with kidney failure need regular dialysis to do the work of their failed kidneys. Dialysis do NOT cure the failed kidneys, it only buys the patient time until they find a donor kidney. If they never find a donor kidney, Or they find a donor kidney and the procedure fails or their body rejects it,They have to continue dialysis or they may die if they run out of money to continue the dialysis.

I know people personally who had to sell land, sell houses, sell assets, sell jewelleries, and eventually died from the expenses of dialysis and kidney failure. It is an unfortunate and a very cruel unkind medical condition that will eventually kill its victims if they never find a donor with a kidney that works or if they are unable to afford regular dialysis on a longterm.

I take my time to say all of this: To explain to you how financially draining kidney failure is and why we must all be aware of it to prevent it and live healthier longer lives. How to know someone has kidney failure:
-1). They may have swollen face, legs or arms.
-2). They may have nausea or vomiting.
-3). They may have generalised body itching.
-4). They may have uncontrolled blood pressure problems

If you, your loved one or your family member has any of the mentioned symptoms, please see a doctor and get a comprehensive medical check up. Before the kidneys finally pack up and fail completely, there are usually simple signs that the body gives (which are what I mentioned above here).

How To Prevent Kidney Failure:
-1). Monitor your blood pressure yearly,
-2). Monitor your blood sugar yearly,
-3). Keep your weight under control,
-4). Avoid excess alcohol use,
-5). Stop smoking- of any kind,
-6). Drink 2-3litres of water everyday,
-7). Avoid using/injecting any hard drugs.
-8 ). Stay away from unregulated street herbal drinks.
-9). Get yearly medical checks if you have people in your family with kidney failure.

Sometimes a person may develop kidney failure even when they have done absolutely nothing wrong. So pls don’t assume that having kidney failure is the person’s fault. Sometimes it may purely be as a result of a genetic disorder or an inherited medical condition.

Except you have lost a loved one to kidney failure or you have seen firsthand the trauma, the pain, the loss and the unspeakable suffering that kidney failure can cause, you may never truly understand how very important this message here is.

And as for the donated kidney: No, it cannot be returned to the donor, if the recipient’s system rejects it. Because usually it would have spent time in the system of the recipient and will most likely be unsuitable for re-transplantation into anybody else. This sad reality only adds more to the pain and the torture of the whole process both for the recipient and the donor.

On a final note: Please pray for TG Omori. You may not have money to give him. You may not have a kidney to give him.But please say a prayer for him if you can. There’s a really long road ahead for him. And may God stand by him in this very difficult time.

Please pray for TG Omori.

He has battled kidney failure for 1year.
His only brother donated a kidney for him and the transplant kidney didn’t work for him.

He will have to continue dialysis until he gets another kidney. Most people with kidney failure need 2-3 dialysis sessions…

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Last updated on September 13th, 2024 at 10:04 pm