For Barrister Ayodele Fasanya, 58, the only thing that matters now is how to raise money to get a kidney transplant. Fasanya battling stage five chronic kidney disease has been hospitalised at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital since November. Even though he has been receiving palliative care and undergoing regular dialysis, he said only a kidney transplant that doctors say will cost a whopping N17m can help him have his life back.
His doctors have told him that he would need a kidney transplant to increase his chances of living a longer, healthier life. “My serious ailment then has been gastric arthritis, my uric level was quite high and it affects my mobility because I was quite an active and busy person and what I do was to use painkillers and I later got to know that the Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are not good for the kidney,” he recalls.
“By the time I was referred to a nephrologist, the first test showed that I had stage three chronic kidney disease. As soon as I heard that, I got panicked and I begin to self-audit to control and live a healthy style, I cut off animal protein, plant protein, salt but again, I had underlying cholesterol but I controlled it.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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