The next phase: Transplant
I am sitting down to write this entry a full four weeks post-kidney-transplant! That's right! On Sunday, May 13, I got "the call" and received a kidney transplant in the wee hours of the morning on Monday, May 14, 2018. For the last few weeks, I've been thinking that I wanted to get online and write up a series of blog posts about that experience. Believe it or not, despite being in recovery from surgery, those four weeks have been super busy! So I'm just now getting around to gathering my thoughts and putting digital "pen to paper." First, to clarify, I was technically listed on two transplant lists. I was placed on the deceased donor list just last summer. However, because they count your dialysis time as "wait time," I had accrued almost 6 1/2 years of wait time on the list, which put me pretty close to the top. The average wait time in the DFW area with my blood type (O+) is 6-7 years, so I knew that it was possible I could get ...