Tag: disease

• Unwrapping the gift

  

  Now the initial shock is past and we’re working through the pain filled grimaces and planning the homecoming it’s worth considering the other side of this good news. The donated kidney came from somewhere, and while we don’t know anything about its previous owner I doubt they intended to pass it along at this particular…

  bish

  3 Mar 2017

  family

  disease, donation, kidney, organ, transplant

• Transplant Update

  

  Well, of all the ways a council meeting can go, having your wife rush in and cry out “the hospital’s rung and we have to gooooo!” is not one I would have scripted. But, this happened last night. Skip to latest news Janet was informed she had Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) in 2013, and was by now…

  bish

  2 Mar 2017

  family

  disease, kidney, pkd, polycystic