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American woman mistakenly removed both kidneys

'19.11.2018'

The 73-year-old woman was “not too happy” to learn that both of her kidneys were accidentally removed, which means she will have to go through a long and rather painful dialysis procedure for the rest of her life.

Linda Woolley, from Inglewood, Colorado, was diagnosed with "something similar" to kidney cancer at a University of Colorado hospital in March, after which she underwent surgery in May, during which both her kidneys were removed. The Daily Mail.

But later it turned out that her biopsy was benign and showed "no signs of malignancy."

Doctors realized that they had made a mistake after a postoperative biopsy, which did not reveal a single sign of cancer in both of the removed organs.

But the kidneys cannot be simply taken and replaced. Now, three times a week for four hours a day, Linda has to sit under a dialysis machine - an "artificial kidney", and she says that all this turned her life upside down.

“To be honest, I feel like they owe me a kidney,” Woolley admits.

The woman hired a lawyer because she is going to sue the hospital.

The kidneys are necessary for the person to remove waste and excess water from the blood through the production of urine. People can live with just one kidney, but this is the maximum that the body is capable of. Without kidneys, dialysis is obligatory: patients are given an IV drip with special substances that purify and filter their blood. You can live on it for about ten years, but it is very difficult.

“My life has completely changed. Dialysis is not a picnic for you, no matter how used to it. It steals you out of your life, ”the woman says.

Now Linda is not healthy enough to be placed on a waiting list for transplants. People who are expecting a kidney must be able to endure a complex and life-threatening operation, and then be on immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives.