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Personal medical updates

01/30/2026

Getting the cyst checked. Wish they would have removed it in November. 😖

01/19/2026

Yall try to contain yourselves. Don’t be lining up at my door for this.

🤦‍♀️ as if knowing you’ll take this for the rest of your life isn’t enough…..they feel the need to remind you that it’s actually dangerous…..cool.

01/09/2026

10 years ago my peritoneal dialysis catheter was placed. That was the first type of dialysis I tried. Oooofff. 10 years.

12/31/2025

A calmer year than the last two….medically. Thankfully!! Medically that’s all I asked of 2025-be less eventful.

A couple surgeries. A couple dehydration spells that landed me in the hospital. Hit 1 year post transplant and 2 years post stroke! A cyst that forced me into decisions I didn’t think I’d be making. That wraps up the year for me.

I’ll take that compared to other years! I’m truly grateful for the support I get from all of you! Thank you for your encouragement and prayers. Thank you to those that truly check on me not just “how are you” for conversation. I love y’all!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas! 🎄

12/11/2025

Katie Myers Photography

12/08/2025

I had a dream.
I had plans.
I had images in my head of how life would be.

All that is gone now. It’s dark here in my corner again. It’s adjustment time. It’s acceptance time.

Adjusting to never having that dream again.
My plans are thrown out the window.
I can’t seem to even imagine what life will look like now.

Last week I made the hardest decision I’ve ever made due to my health. I decided that becoming a mom is not in my cards. My body has been through too much. But that’s not even what made me make my choice. I have a risk of passing my kidney disease on. I know I could not live with myself if I selfishly went through with my hopes and dreams and then my child ended up with this awful disease. I could not sit back and watch them suffer and go through all I’ve been through knowing it was because of me. When we found the cyst on my o***y, I knew I couldn’t keep putting this topic off. I’ll be meeting with the surgeon to figure out exactly how it’s all going to go down.

This one is hard. This one hurts. A lot. Because if you know me then you know becoming a mother to my own child has ALWAYS been my dream since I was young.

Kidney disease has taken so much from my life but at the same time kidney disease has given me a lot in life.

I’ve given all the information I have and know. Thank you all for your love prayers and encouragement. Please understand if I don’t respond, I still appreciate you and I see your comments and reactions! 💚

12/04/2025

Hello anxiety, we meet again.

Update later or tomorrow or whenever I feel like talking about things.

Love y’all. Your prayers and support will forever mean the world to me. Thank you! 💚❤️

11/23/2025

Was back in the ER tonight for the cyst. They did give me pain medicine this time but that didn’t touch it and they told me to follow up with my Dr to see if they can get me in sooner than the 18th. I haven’t slept in 3 nights.

11/13/2025

Yesterday was rough.
Was up all Tuesday night with my right original kidney hurting very badly snd no other symptoms. Went to urgent care yesterday morning and they sent me to the ER immediately. The ER discovered a kidney infection and a cyst on my right o***y the size of a lime. Sent me away with an antibiotic script and told me to call the dr about the cyst. Never even offered Tylenol for pain control. So we are on day two of being in pain and nothing I’ve tried has helped.

Just when I was thinking I was going to be ok for awhile…..yay something new to deal with 😵‍💫🥴

10/19/2025

No, literally.
Listen to your body whisper so you don’t have to hear it scream!

10/16/2025

Twelve years ago I walked into an office and they put a catheter in my stomach for dialysis and my physical abilities have been limited since.
Today I just walked out of an office for the last time and with no restrictions.
I don’t know how to feel currently. I’m happy and relieved to not be on dialysis and not have restrictions. I’m scared out of my mind that there’s no safety net.

*Pictures are mostly out of order. Wow this body of mine has been medically beat up.

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