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Tue 03 Mar 2010Waiting for a kidney transplant
IN THE two years since I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), I have come to despise a number of things – one of which is my own body. The other is people telling me it could be worse.
It is an empty phrase that does little to comfort and serves only to increase my levels of agitation with each passing fit and healthy person who delivers the line as if they were pointing out some silver lining that I have stubbornly ignored all this time. They should try being kept alive by a machine sometime and see how that reality bites.
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