Kidney Transplants: Guest Speaker

On Thursday, we had a guest speaker named Tina come in and talk to us about her experiences with failed kidneys. Because of a genetic reoccurance, both of her kidneys failed. Her good friend generously gave Tina one of her own kidneys, but that one failed as well. She explained that by this point she was very frightened and highly frusterated. She thought she was going to die. But amazingly, she was given another kidney by someone who had died in a car accident. She also mentioned that she has four kineys (they don't remove the failed ones),  but she only has one working one. Tina said that the genetic kidney failure that runs in her family on both sides tends to skip every other generation. In other words, her grandparents had it, her parents didn't, and she did. She also explained that she is grateful for her terrible experiences because they taught her the value of life. "These experiences taught me to see how lucky I am for every moment that I have to live on this planet." -Quote from Tina