Identify at least four ways in which W.V. might experience difficulty adjusting after organ transplant.
What will be an ideal response?
• Financial difficulties related to the cost of immunosuppressive therapy
• Fear and anxiety over the possibility of organ rejection
• Dependency on medication for the remainder of his life
• Living with risk of infection because of continual immunosuppression
• Guilt because he received his kidney as the result of the death of another human being
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