My Kidney Lives

Kidney disease chose me and I chose to fight, beat and ultimately celebrate my life with kidney disease. Since the age of eight years old, I have been living with kidney disease. My kidneys have been a source of motivation, inspiration, desperation and have controlled parts of my life. This is my personal story through poems and anecdotes how I endured kidney disease to live a grateful and blessed life. It is about my struggles and of course, happy times. It is about different chapters in my life that created who I am, but also shows who I was before and after my transplant. I was inspired to write about stages of my life to celebrate my life of living, breathing, and existing on this planet. I recounted my moments of darkness and light through poems and anecdotes. In this book, I share my joys and pains growing up with kidney disease, about being bullied and being told I was not good enough for college. My hardships and failures culminated into the grateful life I am living today.