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Still Fighting Fit After Three Years!!

Hello!! Another year has passed and I'm here again trying to think of something exciting to tell you! Well, with pleasure, I would like to say that there is no exciting news whatsoever!! 

I still attend my outpatient appointments on a quarterly basis and religiously log on to see my results the next day. These have stayed constant the entire year meaning my kidney is doing a fantastic job keeping my body free of toxins and fighting fit.

I can honestly say, hand on heart, that my life is no different to anyone else's, if you ignore the mountain of drugs which I have to take daily. I work, rest and most importantly PLAY!! Below is a pic of Trev and I  in the van getting ready to go away for the weekend to "play"!!


Mum is extremely well, suffering no ill effects from donating a kidney to me. I'm the luckiest girl to have such a selfless mum who could give me such a perfectly functioning kidney!! 

This year to celebrate, instead of going on our usual pamper day, mum and I are going to the Eden Project. Can you believe mum has never been!! On Sunday we'll spend the day together and will most likely reflect on what could have been. If not for mum I would still be hooking up to my dialysis machine on a nightly basis, living a half life. I owe mum a lot.

Here's the most recent pic of mum and I on Christmas Day :-) 


I would like to end this years blog by sending a message out to anyone who has kidney failure, there is light at the end of the tunnel, some people can be well after having a transplant even when on the damaging drugs we have to take. I enjoy every day to the full and never dwell on what might happen in the future. It's mind over matter, I have decided to be happy and well and that's exactly what I've got.

Happy New Year One and All!! 

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