Martha Aguayo de Mendez and her family credit the National Kidney Foundation and UCHealth’s Hispanic Transplant Team with guiding them through Martha's chronic kidney disease diagnosis. via annetrujillo7
DENVER — Martha Aguayo de Mendez will be the first to tell you her family, especially her granddaughters, mean everything to her.
“She was in the hospital for about two weeks and the emergency care or ICU for six days, so it's been a rollercoaster, especially because she was working," the daughter said."She was, you know, doing her regular life, and after that, I had to make the decision for her that she couldn't work anymore.”
It was the National Kidney Foundation office in Denver that provided the family the information they needed to move forward. The National Kidney Foundation also put the family in touch with UCHealth’s Hispanic Transplant Team, the only team like it in the Rocky Mountain Region.“For patients who are on dialysis, there’s like a 50% mortality at five years. So, you can see the importance of getting them sooner rather than later to transplant," Giusti said.
What’s different about the Hispanic Transplant Center is not just the signs in Spanish you see in the hallways. The fact that they were not compatible ended up being a blessing, because they were worried about having surgery at the same time. They also worried about who would take care of little Natalia and Daniela.
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