~ If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Inconvenient Messiah" ~ I’m Michelle and I will never be done being grateful! There is always that one small thing we can be grateful for every single day! ~Favorite Quote: We Rise By Lifting Others~ Robert Ingersoll 💙💚Be A Donor, Save A Life https://registerme.org/campaign/michaelandgino4life💚💙 💙💚Kidney Transplant Recipient x 2💚💙 ~Found out I had extremely high blood pressure after a car accident landed me in the Emergency Room. ~Diagnosed with chronic interstitial nephritis, kidney failure, a few months later. 4/1997 I still joke that my parents jinxed me by donating a car to the Kidney Foundation. 🤪 ~Married my husband Scott👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻 💖 ~Started in center hemodialysis in 2005 ~Lost hearing in left ear in fall 2005 ~Lost hearing in right ear 2006 (the hearing loss was most likely caused by either the buildup of toxins in my body from kidney failure, or from dialysis.) ~Wear 🦻🏻hearing aids🦻🏻 in both ears ~Received First kidney transplant 4/28/2010~Named this kidney George ~Started 💊Pharmacy Technician💊program at community college ~Adopted our furbaby Jojo ~Finished Pharmacy Tech program with straight As in all classes ~Took national exam, passed and got Pharmacy Tech License (received my license while I was in the hospital for rejection treatment) ~Kidney Transplant Rejection Episode ~Started 🎼singing 🎤with the community choir again in spring 2015…I thought I wouldn’t be able to with hearing aids, but I’m doing it anyway!😍 ~Started in center hemodialysis again ~Gastric sleeve to help me lose weight to get a second transplant ~First transplanted kidney removed due to a transplant rejection ~Received Second kidney transplant on 2/26/2018~Named this kidney Faith (feel free to ask me why!🥰) ~If you’d like to hear more of my transplant journey feel free to send me a dm on IG. I’m always happy to share! ~Struggling with dialysis and need to talk? Feel free to DM me! ~Furbaby mom to the cutest maltipoo! 🐶 🎼🎶I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints🎶 ⛪️ 🏥Commercial Billing Rep (no coding)🏥 🎵Choir Performer-Alto🎵 👞Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone One Step and One Day at a Time!!♥️ 😍I have met SO MANY amazing people here on CH and the Social Interaction has helped my anxiety so much!!😍 🇺🇸