Today is the i year anniversary of my new kidney. Its been a rough year, for the first few months I regretted ever having the operation but now I wonder how I ever got through the ordeal of 4 years of dialysis.

Over the past through months I had to face the fact that I won't ever be able to go back to work. I am now as healthy as I ever will be and though I am very grateful for that, it was hard to come to terms with this is as good as it will get.

While on dialysis I thought that the transplant would fix everything and I could go back to normal. But a transplant is actually a treatment, not a cure, and I still have my underlying health problems.

Now that I am no longer just waiting in limbo, I am feeling emotionally refreshed and am getting on with my life, not my old life, but a new one.