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God gave Flora a Kidney, 5601 Southwestern Medical Avenue, Dallas, TX (2026)

02/12/2026

-Thank You 🌹
Thank you so much
for caring enough to bless me with your sweet heartfelt messages, birthday wishes, GIFs, prayers, personal texts and calls. Your love and consideration truly enhanced my day! Sending love to all of you and lifting you up in prayers 🙏.

I hope my birthday became an altar of praise and blessed those who read it.

02/11/2026

THANK YOU 🌹
Everyone, thank you so much for caring enough to bless
me with your sweet heartfelt messages, birthday wishes, GIFs, prayers, personal texts, calls, cards and gifts. Your love and consideration truly enhanced my day! Sending love to all of you and lifting you up in prayers 🙏.

I hope my birthday became an altar of praise and blessed those who read it. My heart reflects Psalm 115:1: “Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your name I give glory.”

02/10/2026

🌹HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
With deep gratitude, I thank and praise God for blessing me with three-quarters of a century of life—75 years today! This is truly a milestone. God has graciously given me my promised years and, if it is His will, is positioning me now for my strength years.

If you know me, you know I have weathered many storms-but never alone. God was always with me. He has proven Himself faithful time and time again, answering prayers and sustaining me through every season.

Today, I especially praise God for my miraculous, renewed life, for Dawn Grace (my precious kidney), and for Monique Adam , who answered God’s call to be my donor. I will forever be grateful for this extraordinary gift of life.

With resilience and joy, I thank God for renewed strength, health, healing, restoration, unmerited favor, mercy, and grace. I thank Him for being Jehovah Jireh—my Provider, my supreme Comforter, and my very best Friend.

I am thankful for my family, my friends, my Facebook community groups, and for the opportunity to serve Him, glorify Him, and testify of His faithfulness and steadfast love.

May I encourage someone today to draw near to Jesus, for if you draw near to Him, He will draw near to you.

12/20/2025

Memories and Praise.
I remember this day in 2022 when I asked God for a kidney and said that was all I wanted for Christmas. God answered my prayer in 2023 and this is the third year I am enjoying my blessed renewed life. Praising God with all my heart, soul and voice. Forever grateful to Monique Adam, my loving living donor, who was a stranger, for answering YES to God’s call. Thank you FATHER GOD for your faithfulness! Thank you Monique for the suffering you encountered just for me and for becoming my Sweetest Niece!

12/15/2025

KIDNEY INFECTION OR FAILURE SYMPTOMS:

On my prior post I explained how bowel issues-specifically constipation and irritable bowel can mimic transplanted kidney rejection or infection, causing extreme concern.

After a kidney transplant, the new kidney usually sits in the lower right abdomen, close to the intestines, so what happens in the intestines affect how the area feels.

When your bowels are backed up:
• The intestines swell with stool and trapped gas.
• This added pressure can push outward toward the transplanted kidney area.

Symptoms you may feel are:
• Lower abdominal fullness or bloating
• Pressure or discomfort over the transplant kidney
• Achy, sore,burning or pulling sensations
• Pain that worsens when bending or twisting
• Pain that comes and goes in waves. Spasms, sharp twinges or cramping.
. Nausea and poor appetite

All of these symptoms from bowel pressure can feel alarming but doesn’t damage the kidney itself.

Now that I have expounded further on the mechanical pressures of the bowels, I’m going to apprise you of the symptoms that doctors say indicate you may be having kidney infection or failure.

• Severe pain over the transplant kidney
• Fever
• Decrease in urine output
• Blood in urine
• Persistent nausea/vomiting
• No bowel movement for 3–5 days
• Hard, painful abdomen

💙 Educational sharing only — not medical advice.

Join and follow my Kidney Voyage Educational Hub group page for more posted information.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1166785004317029/?ref=share_group_link

12/06/2025

Bowel Health & Kidney Transplant Awareness

I promised to share my experiences to help other kidney transplant patients, especially those dealing with constipation or bowel issues from a scarred colon like me.

When you’re constipated, the intestines and transplanted kidney share nerve pathways, so irritated or swollen bowels can cause pain that feels like it’s coming from the kidney. This can be misleading and frightening.

You may feel:
• Severe cramping
• Spasms
• Sharp twinges
• Burning or pulling
• Pain that comes in waves over the kidney area or back
• Swelling or pressure over the transplant kidney

Pain medicines can slow your bowels even more—especially when combined with Prograf and Prednisone. Many times, the problem is bowel pressure, not kidney damage. Treating the constipation will usually relieve the pain.

Constipation can also press on the ureter, which may increase the risk of UTIs-already higher for transplant patients.

I personally struggled with these issues for two months, made worse by E. coli that came from contaminated store-bought lettuce and tomatoes I used in my wraps. Washing produce with vinegar, baking soda, and water cannot remove bacteria that is inside the vegetable. Avoid eating raw produce unless you know its growing source.

I hope this helps someone avoid what I went through. You’re not alone.

💚 Educational sharing only — not medical advice.

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10/15/2025

If you are familiar with me, you are aware of my sentiments regarding Veterans. This issue weighs heavily on my heart, so I am bringing it up. I am fairly confident that I already know two individuals who will assist, but I am hopeful that I will receive four responses, as this is a pressing concern. Twenty-two Veterans succumb to their struggles daily. May I request that two friends or family members copy and repost this message? Someone's life may depend on it. ❤️‍🩹 Call the Veteran's Hotline at 988 #1 or 844-647-1354. I am asking for just two individuals to respond with 'done'.

10/10/2025

My Fertilizer Safety Lesson for Fellow Immune-Suppressed Gardeners

Many of you know how much I love gardening, but I was unable to do so for a year following my kidney transplant on 7/26/23.

Although I’m still immune compromised, it feels wonderful to be back in the garden again. I just have to be cautious—avoiding inhaling soil mold and keeping a safe distance from the birdbaths in my container and raised beds.

I recently ordered fish fertilizer, but after checking with AI, I learned it isn’t the safest choice for immune-suppressed gardeners since it can contain bacteria such as Salmonella or E. coli.

Synthetic fertilizers like Miracle-Gro are much safer for me to use, as they’re sterile and free of bacteria, fungi, or pathogens. So, I’ll be continuing with Miracle-Gro instead.

I hope sharing this helps other immune-suppressed gardeners stay safe while enjoying what they love.

10/10/2025

I gained 270 followers, created 1 post and received 1 reaction in the past 90 days! Thank you all for your continued support. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

07/31/2025

LIFE SAVING
When you are alone and have a heart attack, what are you gonna do? A really good post that can't be shared often enough:

1. Take a 2 minute break and read this:
Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

2. You are really tired and frustrated.
All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

3. Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

4. Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment.

8. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

9. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

Instead of posting jokes, you're helping save lives by spreading this message.

❤️ COPY (hold your finger, click on the text and select copy, go to your own page and where you normally want to write, select finger again and paste)!

06/26/2025

THANKFUL THURSDAY
7-26-25 KIDNEYVERSARY
I’m on my 2nd year of living my best life. Meet and applaud my Donor Angel Monique Adam.
You have heard my kidney story and the faithfulness of God answering prayers. God gave me a kidney through my Altruistic Angel Monique Adam on 7/26/24. I will always be grateful to Monique for saying yes to God to save my life. My life belongs to God and I shall never stop praising Him.

06/19/2025

📣
To celebrate my 2-year Kidneyversary on July 26, 2025, and to give back in gratitude, I’m sharing educational posts in my Kidney Voyage Educational Hub Group page These will include helpful tips and information for anyone living with kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, or transplant.

💙 Whether you’re on this journey yourself or know someone who is, I invite you the group and share it with others who could benefit. Let’s learn, grow, and support one another together!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1166785004317029/?ref=share_group_link

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