Another new developement is that I've been given a list of foods I should avoid, and ones that are good for me to eat, under the kidney failure/dialysis program.
Since dialysis removes a lot of protein from the body, I'm suuposed to eat as much protein as possible. Animal protein is recommended, because it stays with the body better than vegetable protein (additionally, nuts, beans and some other sources of vegetable protein are high in phospherous and/or sodium, two things I'm supposed to really avoid).
I also am supposed to avoid potassium, which means bananas, and, worst of all, potatoes. I am a potato freak. I could happily eat nothing but potatoes for a year and never miss the taste of anything else. Happily, this is all just temporary until the transplant and recovery.
Oh, and for those who have been telling me for months that I can never drink soda again, they tell me that, for now, I should avoid Coke, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, which I haredly ever drank anyway, but that other soda is fine in moderation . Most importantly, the said that Root Beer, the elixir of life, is fine (again, these restrictions will be even less after the transplant).
If anybody has any good recipes or anything that are high in protein and low in phospherous, sodium and potassium, I'd love to hear them.
Salt Lake City film student Paul Gibbs has had a kidney abnormality all his life. In November, his health took a turn for the worst. Both of his kidneys have failed and he is in immediate need of a kidney transplant. Like so many, he finds himself without health insurance and with the recent cuts in government assistance he desperately needs help to pay for the procedure and the medications that he will have to be on for the rest of his life. Thank you for your help.
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Paul Gibbs is a 34-year old Salt Lake City, Utah film student and part-time Clark Planetarium employee who is also helping to raise his 4-year-old nephew and 2-year-old niece. Having lived his entire life with impaired kidney function – he underwent 9 surgeries for Bilaterral Ureteral Reflux before the age of 5 – he now find himself in kidney failure and in desperate need of both dialysis and a kidney transplant to survive. In order to keep his body from attacking and/or rejecting the new kidney, he will have to be on medications for the rest of his life. This is a very expensive situation and not one that he can afford on his own.
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So ... meat recipes? Any preferences? Fish? Chicken? Pork? Beef? I think they'd all be ok, depending on what you cook them WITH. Introduce them carefully. I can look through stuff and see what I have for you. In the mean time, how are you with frittatas (Italian omelette-ish, quiche-y dishes)? Eggs are a great source of protein, but I'm not sure how the stack up to your No-No list.
Eggs are good (I've never been a big egg eater, but they have been reccomended now). Anything put "pink meats" like ham, bologna, etc, are good.
I'll start combing the food porn ... er, cookbooks ... and see what I can come up with for you.
BTW - Ham is gross. Bologna is grosser. The end.
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