721010login-checkFor recipient of UCLA Health’s 10,000th kidney transplant, new organ provides new lease on life |
The 42-year-old lost more than 200 pounds and spent a decade on dialysis before receiving a new kidney last year.
By UCLA Health
Ray Jones was 31 when he was blindsided by the news that he had end-stage kidney disease. It wasn’t that he hadn’t been experiencing symptoms: He often felt sluggish and had a hard time catching his breath, and he’d also noticed swelling in his legs due to edema. At the time, though, given that he weighed about 450 pounds, he simply chalked up the symptoms as being weight-related. Read the full story from UCLA Health.
721010login-checkFor recipient of UCLA Health’s 10,000th kidney transplant, new organ provides new lease on life |