So, I asked an old curling buddy (yes, those exist) about his experiences with kidney disease. He’s farther along than I am, having just had a transplant (yay!), so clearly I can learn from his experience.

He has gratiously permitted me to post this. I quote:

Hi Mike and Maria,

Feel free to use anything I’ve written in your blog posts or on Facebook. All dates are rough, I am using My chart, but some of the data is really buried and there isn’t a really good search engine on Mychart.