Table 12.

Excerpt 11 Discussion of age in relation to kidney donors

Turn	Speaker	Talk
367.	CKD-P7	Is it better to get a kidney from a young person or an older person?
368.	Doc2:	Young.
369.	CKD-P7 :	Is it?
370.	Doc2:	Better for you.
371.	CKD-P7 :	Oh. I was thinking maybe [John(husband)] can give me one of his. My husband. [Laughs]
372.	Doc2:	Yeah, sure, if he wants to.
373.	CKD-P7 :	But he’s old.
374.	Doc2:	How old is he?
375.	CKD-P7 :	He’s three years older than me, four years older than me.
376.	Doc2:	That’s okay. A living kidney, if you’re considering, do I want it from him, he, as you say, is old, compared to waiting for a deceased donor, a living kidney is almost always better than one from someone who’s died.
377.	CKD-P7 :	Okay.
378.	Doc2:	Because it’s taken out from them in a controlled fashion, and then it’s put straight into you.
379.	CKD-P7 :	Yep.
380 omitted
381.	CKD-P7 :	What about the risk of rejection, [John(husband)] or [Charlie(son)], it would be better for me to adapt? Because [Charlie(son)] is like…
382.	DSS02:	Well, [Charlie(son)] is likely to be a better match.
383.	Patient N:	Better match.
384.	Doc2:	Yeah. But we don’t yet know whether you have any antibodies. You may from pregnancy.
385.	CKD-P7 :	Mm.
386.	Doc2:	So we don’t know how hard that side of things would be. [Charlie(son)]’s kidney is likely to be better for you than your husband’s because he’s going to be younger.
387.	CKD-P7 :	Mm.
388.	Doc2:	But I think either would be pretty good.
389.	CKD-P7 :	Okay, because I’m just thinking, leave the young ones alone. We can grow old together with one kidney each. [Laughs]
390.	Doc2:	It’s a reasonable way to think. And also, if that kidney didn’t work out…
391.	CKD-P7 :	Then I’ve still got [Charlie(son)]. [Laughs]
392.	Doc2:	You’ve still got [Charlie(son)] as a backup.
393.	CKD-P7 :	[Laughs]
394.	Doc2:	It’s tough, isn’t it?