I went to meet Yvonne at the end of Wednesday's treatment. You can't imagine the joy that comes from the staff of the dialysis center, the other patients and their family/friends that are there to visit. Yvonne is getting a kidney!!
Like Yvonne, these other hemo-dialysis patients are there 3 nights a week for 4+ hours and some are there for years and years just waiting to get called that a matching kidney is available. The wait varies from state to state and across blood types but average waits of 4 to 5 years are not uncommon. And if that is the average you can imagine some patients wait close to a decade for this.
Those fellow patients more than anyone else can relate to the joy Yvonne must feel and it probably gives them hope that one day they too will be saying goodbye to dialysis.
There were hugs amd kisses and tears of joy. Some of them were mine...
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