Tifton native needs help with transplants
Tifton Gazette
TIFTON â€" A local man who needs a kidney and pancreas transplant is asking for the community’s help.
Tifton native Anthony Barron, 55, has been on dialysis for a little over a year now. He said he does the peritoneal dialysis, which is a home dialysis choice for people with chronic kidney disease.
He stated that every night before he goes to bed, he hooks up to a machine to clean out his system. It takes six cycles to go through three bags of fluids. The cycling process takes eight and a half to nine hours to complete.
“I’ve gotten use to it,†Barron said.
He takes 25 pills a day plus five shots of insulin after his pancreas stopped producing it about 20 years ago. Also, he has other health issues.
Since he was 12 years old, Barron has been taking medicine for high blood pressure, and then things got progressively worse with his kidneys and pancreas over the following years with them completely giving out in 2011.
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Tifton native Anthony Barron, 55, has been on dialysis for a little over a year now. He said he does the peritoneal dialysis, which is a home dialysis choice for people with chronic kidney disease.
He stated that every night before he goes to bed, he hooks up to a machine to clean out his system. It takes six cycles to go through three bags of fluids. The cycling process takes eight and a half to nine hours to complete.
“I’ve gotten use to it,†Barron said.
He takes 25 pills a day plus five shots of insulin after his pancreas stopped producing it about 20 years ago. Also, he has other health issues.
Since he was 12 years old, Barron has been taking medicine for high blood pressure, and then things got progressively worse with his kidneys and pancreas over the following years with them completely giving out in 2011.
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