This Wednesday, Barbara Will Have My Kidney?FINALLY!

?This Wednesday, Barbara Will Have my Kidney?.FINALLY!

A year and a half ago I blogged about donating my kidney to my sister-in-law Barbara, who was very close to kidney failure. Active Rain even sent me a beautiful "tree of life" pendant showing how much they truly care about thier members!

What I didn?t know at the time was that Barbara's Creatinine level could and did level off just above kidney failure.

Barbara and I exchanging symbolic kidneys. I just love my Tiffany kidney key chain!

Then I felt like my life was on hold as I waited for Barbara to go into kidney failure. This was also extreamly hard on Barbara and our bond only grew. A year went by and all my tests (termed the president?s physical) expired. I never wavered in commitment to donate my kidney, but this made things more complicated. ?

So many people asked, ?Did you ever donate your kidney?? It was hard to explain something I didn?t fully understand other than to say Barbara?s stable right now. It was difficult to plan vacations because there was no way of knowing when Barbara would need my kidney.

Last month I received THE CALL from my donor coordinator that it was time. Still, I said nothing, not even to my parents because I wasn?t going to make the same mistake twice.

I rushed through 3 days of tests (EKG, EEG, Cat Scan, MRI, Chest X-Ray, blood tests, 24 hour urine collection, pap smear, mammogram, stress test - I think the testing may be harder than the surgery!) Fortunately for me and Barbara I?m in exceptional health. Good to know because I'm of the mindset if it's not broke don't fix it and never get physicals!

It?s FINALLY time to donate my kidney to Barbara and the surgery is scheduled for Wednesday, November 14^th at 6:00 a.m.

I am so happy to save Barbara?s life, ensuring her two children have a mother. Their father (my husband?s brother) passed away 6 years ago (that?s a whole other tragic story) and their mother is all they have. I?m feeling a little emotional and excited to get on with the surgery.

I've come to love and cherish Barbara even more as we've both been through so much this last year and a half and always had each other's backs.

I look forward to watching Barbra get healthier every day and for all of us to move on and live normal, (or at least our version of "normal") lives.

The St. Barnabas' Living Donor Institute has been wonderful, treating me like an angle. The truth is 90% of patients either struggle on dialysis for years waiting for a cadaver?s kidney or die on the waiting list. Living donors are very rare.

I can?t imagine NOT saving someone's life when I will live a perfectly healthy and normal life! I am no hero! I was given an opportunity to save a life and that is the greatest gift you can give someone which in turn is a precious gift for me.

This surgery is fairly simple with a quick recovery time. I will have less than a 3 inch scar and the stitches will disolve. I will be up and walking within 2 days! I will feel a little sore, but nothing that advil won't help.?

My hope is that more people will educate themselves on kidney donnation and save lives. You don't even have to be a match...but that's for another blog!

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