Well, we had another false start. I’ve been busy since I left Tennessee, work has been a bit crazy, and I’ve just been worn out and not wanting to make a post. Let me catch you up, and then I’ll get into the round two kidney call. Amanda has been pretty tired after the dialysis…

Well, yesterday was a roller coaster of emotions for sure. We arrived at the hospital, I dropped Amanda off with her bag, then parked and came in myself. I thought I knew the hospital well, but after a sidewalk was closed, I found a new way to get in. On the way into the unit,…

That’s right, you read that title correctly, Amanda was listed last Tuesday and got a call late last night that they had a kidney for her. We don’t know much other than she has to be at the hospital by noon today. I am back in Texas right now, waiting to hop on a jet…

I left for work on Monday, heading to Alpine on a train. Tuesday, the phone rang at 3 am for me to catch a train back home. Amanda and I had chatted a bit once I was off, and I dropped the ‘let’s drive all the way in one day’ on her. Our original plan…

Prayer and fasting are the focus of this post. I’ve only called for fasting once before on Amanda’s health journey. Monday, February 16th, is the day I’m asking our friends and faith family to intercede on Amanda’s behalf. A very pointed prayer to wake her kidneys up and stave off a kidney transplant altogether. Not…

Once back home, we had a bit of a break, not before getting Texas dialysis up and going, though. We arrived Friday evening, and Amanda had dialysis on Saturday. It was in a clinic 30 miles away in Del Rio, a town we frequent. While she was in dialysis, I went to the Roses, who…

Before I get to our departure from Nashville, let me catch you up. We were just going through the motions after the holidays, getting back in the groove with Amandas PT and Rehab schedules. It was taking a lot to get things lined up with dialysis back in Texas. We were also trying to get…

I wrote this post yesterday while Amanda was having a biopsy, but I forgot to post it. We got the results back this afternoon—zero R, which is the lowest level of rejection: virtually none. We had things that hinged on whether these results came back favorable. Read on to see what that means for us. …

Well, it’s been a minute! All of you who get antsy, remember: no news is good news in the medical journal. As for the travel journal, it’s the opposite! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We had a great lead-up to Christmas week and were able to enjoy living in Nashville for…

I’ve owed yall this one for a while, it’s all about the kidneys. We knew the kidneys may be an issue early on. Back in Texas, a new cardiologist mentioned doing a dual heart-kidney transplant. The head of the Methodist heart transplant program right away said Amanda would need kidneys when we had our initial…