The Anniversary: Four years ago today I awoke knowing that my life was about to be forever changed. I showered and made the hour and a half trek to the University of Chicago Medical Center in the wee hours of the morning. When I arrived in the pre-op waiting room, which I must say felt […]
Yes, today is my birthday. I feel eternally grateful that I am celebrating it in gloriously healthy fashion thanks to the selfless gift that Rosaleene (Rose) Cook gave me on March 27, 2007 – that’s the day she donated her kidney to me. On my birthday the previous July 1st I vividly remember blowing out the candles on my birthday […]
It was June of 2006. I was on home-based dialysis because both of my kidneys had stopped working the previous summer. Every night at around 9:00 pm I would head to my bedroom for the night, hook myself up to a dialysis machine via a tube in my stomach, and stay there until 6:00 am. […]