\u201cAll battles are won through prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verlede September \u2013 toe Patrick Brown (40) tydens \u2019n besoek aan \u2019n neuroloog uitgevind het hy het \u2019n niersiekte \u2013 het hy en sy familie nie besef watter invloed dit op hul lewe sou h\u00ea nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 vertel Patrick se vrou, Jenny-Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBinne \u2019n kwessie van vyf maande het sy nierfunksie drasties verswak tot 12% en het hy die nuus ontvang dat hy onmiddellik met dialise sal moet begin, min wetend watter groot invloed en aanpassing dit vir hom, ons as gesin en sy werksomstandighede sou wees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van Patrick se groot liefdes was buite wees en hengel, braai en tussen mense wees, maar sy siekte het veroorsaak dat hy drie dae per week vir vier ure dialise moes ontvang. Jenny-Lee vertel haar man is moeg en gefrustreerd gelaat n\u00e1 sy behandeling en almal moes gewoond raak aan die nuwe dag-tot-dag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy meen die gesin het \u201cverby mekaar begin leef\u201d, omdat behandeling so baie tyd en energie geverg het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten spyte van die uitdaging van sy siekte het Patrick se kollegas van Motolek en die gemeenskap ingespring om te help waar hulle kan. Geld is ingesamel om met die mediese onkoste te help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMotolek Vredenburg, Patrick se werkgewer vir die afgelope 20 jaar, het van dag een af nie een oomblik gehuiwer om Patrick se hand te vat en ons by te staan en geweldig te ondersteun nie,\u201d verduidelik Jenny-Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy s\u00ea haar man het geleidelik swakker geword en n\u00e1 sy diagnose moes die Browns hoor Patrick se beste opsie is om \u2019n nieroorplanting te ondergaan. Volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse Oorplantingsvereniging is daar sowat 2 000 Suid-Afrikaners wat wag vir \u2019n nuwe nier. Deel van die proses om vir pasi\u00ebnte \u2019n nier te kry, is om hul naasbestaandes te toets en te bepaal of hulle moontlik \u2019n nier kan skenk. Patrick se suster Claudine Thiart het toe met die uitmergelende proses begin om te kyk of sy \u2019n skenker is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intussen het Patrick met ho\u00eb bloeddruk gesukkel. Dit was eers n\u00e1 vele toetse en \u2019n buiksonar dat die neuroloog laat weet het Patrick het \u2019n aggressiewe gewas op een van sy niere. \u201cDis iets wat baie seldsaam is. Die wind was uit ons seile. Die gevolgtrekking was dat dit die gewas was wat die ho\u00eb bloeddruk veroorsaak het. Hy is dadelik opgeneem en die dokter wou die nier verwyder. Dit was \u2019n moeilike tyd,\u201d bieg Jenny-Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patrick se nier is verwyder en met byna 10 dae in die hospitaal en ses weke se herstel moes die nieroorplanting uitgestel word. Sy nier het teen daardie tyd tot 7% funksionaliteit verswak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs ek terugkyk na die afgelope jaar moet [ek] erken dit was moeilik om in te staan as pa en ma vir ons twee seuns. Ek weet die Here het my daagliks die krag gegee,\u201d vertel sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Claudine en Patrick is op 7 November albei na die Christiaan Barnard-hospitaal in Kaapstad vir die oorplanting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie emosies het hoog geloop, maar ons was dankbaar die dag het aangebreek en ons het ons vertroue volkome in die Here geplaas. Die operasies vir Claudine en Patrick het suksesvol afgeloop en ons is Claudine ewig dankbaar vir die groot geskenk wat sy aan Patrick gegee het,\u201d vertel Jenny-Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Claudine, wat met haar gesin in Worcester woon, is ges\u00ea die kans dat haar broer haar nier sou verwerp was 0,1%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sal dinge vir \u2019n maand moet rustig vat en sal nie dan kan bestuur nie, maar ek sal kan voortgaan met my lewe. Die hele proses het my laat besef hoe belangrik dit is om na my gesondheid om te sien. Ek het drie kinders \u2013 19, 16 en agt jaar oud \u2013 en as ouer dink jy ook aan die belangrikheid om vir hulle daar te wees,\u201d het Claudine voor die operasie aan Weslander <\/i>ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nou herstel Patrick goed. Die hele ervaring het sy gemoed en ingesteldheid verander en hy het tot \u2019n besef gekom. \u201c \u2019n Mens het baie tyd in die hospitaal om te dink, en jy besef dat materi\u00eble dinge, mag en status, niks is nie,\u201d meen Patrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Browns s\u00ea hulle wil ander vroue en mans asook huisgesinne aanmoedig om hoop te behou. Hulle s\u00ea hoewel \u2019n mens langs die pad moeg raak, moet jy positief bly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUit elke swaarkry kom daar nuwe lesse, nuwe tre\u00eb en nuwe hoop!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle bedank almal vir hul omgee, gebede en ondersteuning in hierdie tyd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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