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day, Mr. Zukerman went through the two-hour dialysis process.
Many individuals find their careers ending in such circumstances, or at least put on hold. But Mr. Zukerman said the partners at Freeman and Company supported him throughout. "The firm made it clear that my health took priority over my case load and provided moral and social support."
"My father was taken aside and told In no uncertain terms that i was not expected to survive to see the next day."
—Stuart Zukerman
By the spring of 1990 his condition had deteriorated. Holding his arm up long enough to shave became a supreme effort.
Then on March 1, 1990 his mother received a phone call from St. Paul's Hospital at 2 a.m. A kidney match had been found. They were unable to reach her son. She was told he must get to the hospital immediately to prepare for surgery.
Surgical team harvesting a l(idney for transplant.
A frantic sequence of events followed. She called his home, but like St. Paul's, received no answer. She was soon calling all her son's friends and the friends of his then-girlfriend (and future wife), Jacqueline. Stuart Zukerman was nowhere to be found.
St. Paul's called again at 6 a.m. Mrs. Zukerman was told that if her son was not at the hospital by 8 a.m. the kidney would have to go to someone else.
Finally, Stuart's best friend reached Jacqueline as she arrived at work just before 8 a.m. Stuart was at home sleeping. The phone line to the house was out of order.
The friend phoned the hospital and lied. Stuart was on his way, he told them. Meanwhile, a girlfriend of Jacqueline's raced to Stuart's home and got him to the hospital by 9 a.m. He received the transplant that afternoon.
Six years later, Mr. Zukerman must still take drugs to keep his immune system from rejecting his transplanted kidney. It is a regimen that will last the rest of his life.
As he explained, "That means you are generally more susceptible to picking up colds or flus or anything else your body would normally fight off. A sniffle
means a trip to the doctor as it could easily become pneumonia, something particularly dangerous for someone on an immunosuppressant regimn. Any attempt to fight the infection also means fighting the new kidney, which the body will always identify as a foreign object.
And while he must be vigilant with his health, it no longer consumes his entire life. This new chance, he said, was possible because the family of a young man, fatally injured in a car accident, decided something good should come of their son's death.
Mr. Zukerman, for one, is
The symptoms of kidney failure
The various symptoms of kidney failure are non-specific and can be mistakenly attributed to other health problems, according to Dr. Adeera Levin, Some known symptoms include: •Metallic taste in one's mouth •Nausea and/or vomiting • Urinating too much or too little
•Shortness of breath •Inability to tolerate certain foods
•Lack of energy •Weightless •Loss of appetite •Cremips in legs •Insomnia and restless sleeping patterns
•Itdiing, especially at night