Kevin's Kidney & me

As mentioned in my previous post, I am adding a sentimental post today, although I didn't know it would be this. I had spent the better part of the last two weeks trying to write the letter to the family of my kidney donor. Each time I'd start off fine but then at some point I'd go dark. It's 5:45 in the morning as I write this and the entirety of this letter, albeit a short one, was written over the last two hours and considering the difficulty I had in finding the right words to say... that's saying something. Although tomorrow is the anniversary of my transplant, for this year and this year only I'm seeing today as the anniversary because it was a little after 6:00 on a Sunday morning a year ago that I got the call. This morning sorta completes the year for me from phone call to thank you letter. And the timing feels appropriate as a means of really wrapping this blog up. And with that, I'd like to share with you the letter I have chosen to write an...

I should have written this a couple of weeks ago. I have no particular reason why I didn’t, although I have to admit that I’ve become a Netflix junkie and find it very easy to become addicted and distracted to the new series that come out every month... every week. Just this week I knocked off two fairly recent series.. “Sisters” & “Maniac”. That’s 17 hours of dedicated television watching. Add in that I watched an episode of “The Good Place” an episode of “Better Call Saul” and two episodes of “Wrecked” and I’m up to 21 hours of television and that doesn’t take into account the myriad moments of CNN where I found myself so disgusted by the goings on of the republican side of our government I had to switch to something else and that led to many satisfying hours of laughter and tears through Sisters, followed by several hours of a mind boggling psychological Alice in wonderland meets the matrix meets the X files meets twilight zone meets 80’s retro imagined future-realized-es...