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« Reply #50 on: July 12, 2011, 05:01:48 PM »
This is very interesting!  I am very blessed to have found love with my wonderful hubby.  We've been together since 1990.  I sometimes think that God gave him to me to make up with all the crap I've had to go through with kidney failure.  I wouldn't trade him for anything.

But I also wonder what my life would have been like If I hadn't had kidney disease at 19.  It has affected so many of my choices in life.  From job to friendships, to where I've chosen to live.  Would I have found my hubby if I hadn't had kidney disease?  It really makes you think....

I don't think I would change anything because I love my family and I really think that I'm blessed. 

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« Reply #51 on: July 12, 2011, 07:27:58 PM »
Quote from: bette1 on July 12, 2011, 05:01:48 PM
This is very interesting!  I am very blessed to have found love with my wonderful hubby.  We've been together since 1990.  I sometimes think that God gave him to me to make up with all the crap I've had to go through with kidney failure.  I wouldn't trade him for anything.

But I also wonder what my life would have been like If I hadn't had kidney disease at 19.  It has affected so many of my choices in life.  From job to friendships, to where I've chosen to live.  Would I have found my hubby if I hadn't had kidney disease?  It really makes you think....

I don't think I would change anything because I love my family and I really think that I'm blessed. 



Bette1

I agree with your viewpoint. Aaron (my BF) talk about this all the time when I wonder aloud about who I would have been if I hadn't had kidney disease since birth. He says he would never change it b/c I wouldn't be who I am and I wouldn't have found him. It does make you wonder how much of this disease shapes who you are and who you become....I always tried to live by the mantra that kidney disease doesn't define me but influenced me instead....

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Born with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
1995 - AV Fistula placed
Dec 7, 1999 cadaver transplant saved me from childhood dialysis!
10 transplant years = spleenectomy, gall bladder removed, liver biopsy, bone marrow aspiration.
July 27, 2010 Started dialysis for the first time ever.
June 21, 2011 2nd kidney nonrelated living donor
September 2013 Liver Cancer tumor.
October 2013 Ablation of liver tumor.
Now scans every 3 months to watch for new tumors.
Now Status 7 on the wait list for a liver.
How about another decade of solid health?
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« Reply #52 on: July 13, 2011, 02:28:25 PM »
I always tried to live by the mantra that kidney disease doesn't define me but influenced me instead...

Love your mantra!  I agree!
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« Reply #53 on: July 13, 2011, 09:22:24 PM »
i don't think this disease defines you,it just does'nt allow you to do the things that you may want to do/would have done if
you were healthy.
As to the question, i would have to say health, but saying that i found love, got sick ,
 had a transplant and she's still here 15 years later , putting up with me.

so i consider myself real lucky cause i got both.
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« Reply #54 on: July 14, 2011, 02:14:08 AM »
A keeper Ang...

.... does she have a single sister???  :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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3/1993: Diagnosed with Kidney Failure (FSGS)
25/7/2006: Started hemo 3x/week 5 hour sessions :(
27/11/2010: Cadaveric kidney transplant from my wonderful donor!!! "Danny" currently settling in and working better every day!!! :)

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