Transplant is a treatment not a cure, part of the treatment means you have to take 1) _______________ medications to prevent you from rejecting that kidney. Patient 1(TIM): I take them at 8 o'clock in the morning ,8 o'clock at night, you know, I have my watch set for when they go 8 o'clock at night because you've got to remember you got to take your pills. There isn't no while I'm going down fishing for two days and forgetting your pills. There's none of that. You remember your pills. (What are the side effects for taking the anti-rejection medications?) Psychologist (Dr. Waterman): These medications can have side effects like tremors trouble, sleeping, weight gain, hair growth, 2) _________ and headaches. The medications can also put you at risk for other health problems such as developing cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Many side effects though can be avoided with proper 3) _________ or treated with changes in medications. Transplant Surgeon (Dr Irvin Ruzics): Fortuenately the experts that take care of you are aware of these risks and will be 4) _________ for them and will be quick to intervene if you encounter them. Patient 3 (Audrey): Now I see my surgeon once a year. I see my nephrologist every few months so which is really good. The visits gotten shorter. I go back to the dialysis center even though I've had my transplant. I just want to show them that I can go swimming like I used to. I can go out. I can do so much more now. Patient 4 (Frank): My... you know, I feel better. My shortness of breath is gone, my sweating is gone, my energy is back and we turn around almost to normal again, you know, 180 degrees from bad, short of breath, weak to active, dancing every weekend. Patient 5 (Alfonso): Transplant has been able to give me the opportunity to coach my son's baseball team. If I was on 5) _________, I mean, be lucky to get to first base, if that I mean, now I can, you know, on the ball field, keep up with my son, actually, you know I can run the base. I could run you know from home to home to home, you know, I mean just like I used to be able to. Patient 6 (Yo): I can travel, oh I can I have much of freedom. I don't have to go back home about 9 o'clock, you know, put myself into the machine. I don't have to go back to hospital every other day and I hooked myself into the machine for like a four and a half hours. I don't have to do all that. Patient 7 (Yvonne): The gift I got from this whole process is life.... having life and being able to live it with no limits.