Biden, Pelosi, and the Democrats disdain ordinary folks, and devote all their engergy to pandering to oddballs and fringe freaks and sexual degenerates.
Posted on 01/23/2023 1:28:01 PM PST by SoConPubbie
This is the true story of how President Trump saved my life.
In early 2017, I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and its partner in death, End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
In the emergency room, my blood pressure was 242 over 160. It’s a miracle I didn’t stroke out and die.
I was quickly diagnosed, spent days in the hospital and then began years of dialysis and the debilitating wait for that most elusive of gifts: a kidney transplant.
On July 10, 2019, President Trump signed his ground-breaking “Advancing American Kidney Health” Executive Order. (Here is a link to the video from the signing ceremony, complete with kidney/transplant patients like 1-year-old Hudson Nash.)
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During my recent interview with President Trump. I was elated, of course, to be alive which is an omnipresent emotion for me these days. The president picked up on this immediately and radiated kindness throughout.
As my interview began with President Trump, I blurted out, “I wanted to thank you for saving my life and thousands of others, President Trump.”
He was surprised that the writer he was talking to was a kidney patient himself. “Oh! Is that true? Are you somebody who had the work done?”
“President Trump,” I started emotionally, “I had been on dialysis for more than two years when you signed your order and six months later, I got the call as I was walking out of church on Christmas Day, 2019, that they had a kidney for me. I got that kidney from a new Hepatitis-C clinical trial program that was really kicked into high gear by your order.”
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I asked Trump, “Why did you help struggling and dying kidney patients like me? Did you have friends or a family member that were in kidney failure?”
“Well, over the course of years, I’ve known people with this problem, like your problem and over the years, it just sounded like something could be done and it wasn’t being done. So, this was something that could be solved and we thought we could do that.”
What Trump has had to endure from the deep state is so wrong.
Biden, Pelosi, and the Democrats disdain ordinary folks, and devote all their engergy to pandering to oddballs and fringe freaks and sexual degenerates.
That’s President Trump at his best. So glad the country had him as our President, as opposed to Hillary.
As opposed to 99.9% of federal politicians, Trump got problems solved.
This “make sure it never happens again” talk from the 99.9% is total BS.
Yes and more.
It’s called treason.
I, too, am a transplant recipient. I was transplanted in ‘14 with a gift from my younger brother after six years on dialysis. I was 21 when my kidneys failed, and that was after five years of failed treatments and a diagnosis that should have been made at least a decade before I started dialysis. The wait for a cadaver kidney in my area was 9-15 years, and for a long time I wasn’t eligible for a transplant.
I know the struggle well, and was relieved to see that Trump addressed CKD patients’ needs like that. One day this kidney will fail, and while I hope that it’s not for a long time, I’m not as worried now.
Democrats just want to keep patients chained to the machines. That’s exactly how it feels. I, too, wish I could personally thank Trump.
I have a sister who is a kidney transplant patient. She said she got strep throat when she was young and it went to her kidneys so she’s been dealing with it most of her life. She’s 72 years old and has had a kidney transplant for 33 years. My younger sister was the perfect match and wanted.to be the donor. At the time the doctors told us that the transplant would last 10 years. 33 years is a very good record. I was there when the surgery happened and coming from a large family. A lot of us were there, and we all laid hands on both of them prior to the surgery and prayed. The kidney started working within 30 minutes of the operation and has not stopped since.
Too bad many of us couldn't sacrifice our TV subscriptions to the leftist media, our Facebook accounts, and the convenience of shopping at Amazon to support him.
33 years is an amazing run. It’s great that her kidney worked straight away in the OR. I wasn’t as fortunate, and staff ignored me when I said that I’d reject it on the table. They told me I was being paranoid, even though I’d explained that my auto-immune disease would cause that to happen, and it has happened to numerous patients with FSGS. They sent me home not making urine and didn’t have me return until a week later, when I was hospitalized for 9 days. This after pumping me full of almost fifty liters of saline while I was under in the OR. I was furious when I woke up and saw that I’d doubled in size - literally.
A course of Thymoglobulin and a Prednisone taper later, they sent me back home with Tacrolimus and diuretics. I refuse to go back to them unless totally necessary. Northwestern (Chicago) is a Hydra. Avoid it. Go to Loyola or Rush instead.
I am so sorry for the torture you endured but happy to hear that all is well at this point.
I guess the prednisone is a lifelong commitment and there is another drug my sister must take forever. Immuno something I think. Miracles in our time.
My best friend from high school was on dialysis for 34 years. He just passed over Christmas after contracting sepsis after a hip replacement. He’d had two transplants, both of which failed.
He’s at peace now.
L
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