This blog is a book idea I am working on based on my life experience with chronic renal failure. Chapters will include: Life with chronic renal failure, Kindergarden crush, The trouble with teachers part 1, The trouble with teachers part 2, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome..., Balancing Dialysis and grade school, Father and Daughter complications, Junior High was party time, Vanity can kill a kidney, Balancing Dialysis and High School, Will I ever get a working Kidney transplant again?, It’s a miracle!. I am looking for ideas to make this book more interesting so it can be published some day.

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Life with chronic renal failure (see full 1st draft here)

March 14th 2007 01:51

This story is based on things I have gone through growing up with chronic renal failure. I hope to get ideas to make the story more interesting if it is to boring and see if eventually it is good enough to be a published book.

Life with chronic renal failure

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Epilogue

March 12th 2007 14:26

On August 11, 2007 it will be 9 years I have had this great working kidney. I take eight medication a day so this kidney last as long as possible: one Bacterium, one Prednisone, 1 Lipitor, one Calcium supplement, one baby aspirin and one Cartizem once a day and 2 prograph, and tree Cellcept twice a day. I learned long ago to take it all in one swallow.

I did not gain nearly as much weight after this transplant as I did my first so I was able to loose the weight within a year. I had a very large bloated moon face when I went back to Kent State Trumbull Campus and I was still a bit bloated when I started my first semester at Kent State Main Campus. But that did not last long with all the walking and going to the gym before class sometimes.

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Chapter 14: Why take away my hope

March 7th 2007 18:12

I was on dialysis eight years. It was starting to take a toll on me emotionally. There was so much I wanted to do. I was excepted into the journalism program at Kent State, but to finish my degree I was told I had to go to the main campus.

I took an introduction to journalism at Kent State Trumbull Branch. I loved it. The professor helped a few students including me start an on campus paper. The campus had not had a paper in three years before that. We learned page maker. It took hours to do each issue but it was quite satisfying to see my stories in printed. I was the Entertainment Editor and business Editor collecting ads to run in each issue. Things were getting exhausting with studying, working on the paper and going to dialysis three days a week.
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Chapter 13:Will I ever get a working Kidney transplant again?

March 4th 2007 03:52

Another 3 a.m. call to go wait for a possible kidney transplant at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. The transplant unit at St. Elizabeth was still fairly new when I was called. I was actually in the same room waiting with the other girl that was up for the same kidney. We were chatting and laughing. She deserved a new start as much as I did. She was even a bit younger than me.

Why couldn’t there be two kidneys available so we both would get one? Why can’t there be a way for everyone who needed an organ transplant to get what they needed? But there was only one. Most people don’t even get a chance to get that. I was on my third and this would have been my roommates first kidney transplant.
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