The surgery began around 2:25 and lasted until 6:45. They woke me up and told me the time was 7:15, so that was the point that I was in the recovery room. After monitoring my vitals for some time, I was able to be taken back to my room. There was little pain at that point since I was pretty numb, but my arms hurt from the various IVs I had in them. I had a total of 3 in me, and had had the initial one replaced before surgery. That one had hurt the most. My arm was pretty tore up for about two weeks after the surgery. Other than that, I had 36 staples in my abdomen and a JP drain in my side for fluid in me to drain out. The thing about a kidney transplant is that they don't actually remove either of my bad kidneys. The new kidney is actually placed in my abdomen, and hooked up to an artery in my groin that comes from the leg (Or something like that)...so technically at this time I have three kidneys. One that works great, and two that...
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