answer:My sister in law had a kidney transplant. She had diabeties. She had a shunt put in her arm to help dialysis. That’s a tube that extends the blood artery outside the body. They did the transplant surgery, but during the surgery, the shunt got a clot, and she lost the arm. While they were doing surgery to remove the arm, she had a stroke. Shortly afterwards, she had a heart attack. After recovering from all this, she tried suicide, and ended up in the psyche ward for a bit. Her body rejected the kidney, and she ended up in dialysis again. She was living with us during this time, then went into a board and care facility. She left there, and moved in with her estranged mother, (her mom beat both her and my wife in violent drunken attacks, and abandoned them while they were in their teens) and lived there for a month or two, before dying of insullin shock. This surprised no one, since her habit was to double up on her insullin, and have an ice cream shake. She died at 34, and looked like she was 70. She had 3 kids. The first was still born. The second died of crib death. The third had chicken pox or measles, and survived it, but it left him retarded. She gave him up to adoption after she divorced. When my life gets me down, I think of her, and how lucky I really am. Wow. Sorry. Got carried away with memories of all that. The thing to remember here was that she didn’t take care of herself, and it wrecked her life. If your friend goes thru this, they need to really work hard, and do what the doctors tell them.