Personal Narrative Essay: Serum Creatinine

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After our move to Atlanta, we bought a house. Gaby was finally well settled in high school and busy with SATs and college applications. All in all, life seemed pretty great.
We had just come back from a trip to Israel. I felt particularly sluggish. My creatinine level had begun creeping up, which alarmed my nephrologist, Dr. Anto-nio Guasch, at Emory Hospital. Serum creatinine is a marker of kidney function.
Due to repeated urinary tract infections, it was decided that the only optional treatment was an enteric conversion, whereby the transplanted pancreas is hooked up to the small intestine, instead of the blad-der. The surgery was done at The University of Minne-sota Medical School, where I had the kidney and pan-creas transplant. After the

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