Hi! So obviously I'm not too good at keeping this thing up to date. Most of that's my fault, some of it is the fault of a little thing the kids are calling a kidney transplant. Yes I got the call on October 4th and the deed was done the next day. Three months out and I feel amazing. No dialysis, no dietary restrictions, no fluid restrictions. It's a freedom I long dreamed of. As of now my plan is to find some work to fill my time and in the Summer I'll be back in school to finish my degree. Also I've been writing since my transplant. I thought the last 8 years shouldn't be a total waste, might as well make some art out of it. Anywho, I swear I am going to do my best to keep this updated more regularly with my post-op progress and tips and such for those who are heading down the same path or even those still on dialysis and dreaming of this path. For now, here's the opening to what may one day turn into a book or a play or a movie or just something I show people to bother them. Til next time kids.
He woke up with a strange feeling he had not felt in almost
a decade. Not the grogginess and pain, that he had experienced more times than
he cared to mention. No, this was the feeling of better health. The first words
out of his mouth when he saw the nurse come in the room was, “Does it work? Am
I gonna be ok?”
“Look for yourself.”, as she held up a bag of
burgundy-tinged liquid that he slowly realized was coming out of his brand new,
working kidney. With all the strength he could muster he let out a long-wished
for sigh of relief and fell back under the spell of the mixture of leftover
anesthesia and pain meds.
