Margo - Interview 01  

Margo - Interview 01

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Female
Background: Margo is a married volunteer and has two adult children. Ethnic background/nationality: White American.

Brief outline:Margo donated a kidney to her younger brother in 1997, when she was 48 and they were both living in America. The surgery went smoothly and, over thirteen years on, both she and her brother are well.

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Margo had ‘open’ surgery in 1997. She praised the care she and her brother had received. The morphine made her feel sick but everything went smoothly and she was discharged after three days.

 



I’m not afraid of hospitals. I’m not afraid of doctors. I’m very trusting. I believe that the doctors know and who am I to second guess them. I’m not a doctor. So I’m very trusting of doctors. I’m very trusting of the medical profession because, when you’re ill, who do you want? You want the doctor, you want the hospital.

We had very good care. We couldn’t have been better taken care of I don’t think. I think it was just, you’re not in the hospital very long either. You’re just kind of there, I think I was there two or three days. The only thing that happened to me is they had the morphine drip for pain, and that made me sick. So, “Get me off that, I don’t need it.” You know so, and even then I thought everything went really smoothly.

So you were in hospital for two or three days?

I think three; maybe I was in four, maybe four. He was in, my brother was only in two I think. They sent him home because he was up dancing.

Compared to how -

Compared to me. But then he has a very low scar and I have a very long scar. And now they do it, I hear, laparoscopically. They can take it through your navel which they didn’t do then.
 

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