Live Kidney Donation - Reasons To Be Cheerful About The Surgery

Nobody likes going in to hospital (or at least no one I know!) And even fewer people like to go into surgery. But if you are considering becoming a kidney donor there are reasons to be optimistic about this particular surgery.

Most people, I guess, have at least one medical horror story, even if it is a nurse who can't take blood without giving you a four inch bruise, or can't give you a smear test because they can't find your cervix.

Not a week goes past without some horror story about a cock up in an NHS hospital appearing in the paper. This can really damage your confidence in the run up to a scheduled kidney transplant, or I guess any procedure (you see I'm using medical lingo now, either that or I watch "ER" too much.) But the advantages of this operation are many:

1. It is scheduled, it's not an emergency when the doctors are trying to figure out what went wrong, so everything is planned.

2. As the donor you will be in pretty good health to start with, so the chances of complications are less than if you were actually sick.

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