After transplant, back at work
By Myra Miller
I caught up with Ryan McGee at work on Thursday and he looked great and also felt great.
On December 11 McGee had a kidney transplant, receiving a new organ from his older brother Lewis.
McGee said the surgery recovery was very painful. “There were complications afterwards, with the new kidney trying to pull all the toxins out of the body. But after three or four weeks everything started getting better.”
McGee stayed five days in the hospital and a week and a half in the hotel provided by the hospital. “I would get to come home, but had to go back to New Orleans twice a week.
His visits to New Orleans now are more and more weeks apart.
McGee officially started back at work full time in February. But he did pay occasional visits in January, trying to move around a little bit he said.
After returning home McGee experienced pain in his back and he said the doctors could not explain why and then he started having pain in his legs. “But now everything is going good.
McGee is taking a great deal of medicine, one which acts to combat his body’s natural tendency to reject an invader, in this case his new kidney.
The benefit Raffle done earlier in the year by Eunice Rental for Ryan’s medical expense was a huge success. Lewis said that many people came by the business and made donations and didn’t even buy a raffle ticket.
“We doubled the money that we thought we would raise,” Lewis said.
The winner of the LSU barbecue pit was Damon Daigle.