See? All this drama that is my life right now left me totally failing to acknowledge two very important dates! Gage and Jody’s Kidney Transplant Anniversary – April 27 and May 27.

These last months with Gage? Pretty traumatic for all of us. Dealing with the mental stability of your child who wants to die is well, bottomless-pit-heartbreaking. But I have to say, through it all, I was glad he was living. I was glad that he’d been given a chance by you Jody, to live off of a machine.

The machine? Life-saving, yes. But the impact of living such a life? Sucks.

Back to you. As we embark on our family’s 2nd bout of in and out of body kidneys I want to thank you. I feel like you trained me as the mom to a transplant patient in how to deal with a potential/then donor. I think we did alright, you and I. I’m grateful for how you let me be involved in your process as you tested and got almost approved, then approved.

Thanks for the support of your family. Thanks for praying for my boy to live. Then giving him a chance. Love you. And your rockin’ diet coke, chocolate trained, gently used kidney.