"I’m very grateful - grateful to the staff at UAB and the different ways they have to help people, including those with financial difficulties. I weighed 105 pounds when I had my transplant, and I weighed 137 at my last checkup. I’ve had numerous people tell me that since I’ve gotten off dialysis and had a transplant that I look 15 to 20 years younger.
You could see it in me, and I could definitely feel it. The difference has been like daylight to dark. My labs have been perfect ever since transplant. I was really worried that I may not even see my grandchildren born, so her act of kindness has changed my whole life. There are no words to describe how I feel for her. "She didn’t know she knew my sister at the time she talked about donating for me. They went to high school together, but at the time we didn’t know that. "It turned out that my youngest sister did know her. A young lady overheard my mother talking about me being sick and she just came out and said, ‘Well, I’ll give her a kidney.’ My mother didn’t even know this lady who said this. "I was on the transplant list for close to two years.
I went on dialysis after I got out, and I was on dialysis for almost four years.
I went in weighing 154 pounds and came out weighing just over 80 pounds. I still had to go to the hospital morning and night for eight weeks to get antibiotics. I actually had a couple of doctors tell me I may not even make it through it. I had an infection that spread to my bloodstream. I was on two very strong antibiotics and taking them through an IV. "I went into the hospital the day before Christmas in 2009.
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