In 2009, I worked in the computer field after graduating from college. One day, on my way home from work, I developed a very bad headache. After eating dinner, my symptoms progressed, and I felt like I was drunk and started slurring my words. After the ambulance arrived, they put me on a stretcher and that was the last thing I remember. After being in a coma for a month, I awoke to the news I had
suffered a brain hemorrhage caused by undetected high blood pressure. The hemorrhage resulted in: paralysis in my legs, a hole drilled in my brain, and significant short term memory issues, and resulted in losing my career. Miraculously, I regained feeling in my legs and was able to walk again. I am so grateful for the recovery I have made, however, the undetected high blood pressure had been silently killing my kidneys. As a result, I am now in end stage kidney disease and in critical need of a lifesaving kidney transplant. I have worked extremely hard to take care of my body in preparation for a transplant. My blood pressure is under control, and in the last year, I lost 78 pounds so that I would be healthy enough to receive a kidney. I go for Dialysis treatments 3x a week and recently one of the nurses said that I am so deserving of kidney donation because I consistently go to all my treatments unlike many other patients. A living donor transplant allows me the greatest opportunity to continue living an active lifestyle and return to doing the things I love such as fishing, traveling with my wife, creating memories with my children, and wife. Ultimately a transplant will allow me to spend time with my wife, 5 children and be there at each of their weddings and be a grandfather someday. Over 100,000 people are in critical need of a kidney transplant. I am one of them. Please learn more about living kidney donation….you could save my life or one of the 100,000 who are waiting.
