Blog Table of Contents

Another way to explore what posts are available is to see them as a table of contents, so you can choose (your own adventure).

About Our Living Kidney Donor & Recipient Blog:

• About the Blog
  • Behind the Blog: Why We’re Telling Our Story
  • Turning Blessings Into Words (Chad)

Kidney Recipient (Chad):

• Timeline Of Events
• From Kidney Diagnoses to Transplant Recovery
• In The Beginning…
  • Saying the Words Made It Real
  • The Kidney Need (My Facebook Post)
  • This time last year…
• Dear Younger Me
• Christmas: The Gift (from my donor)
  • Receiving the Gift
  • How I Imagine Meeting My Donor
• Easter: Easter and my kidney transplant
• What I Want Other Kidney Patients to Know
  • Showing Support – A Guide for Family & Friends
• The Search for a Living Kidney Donor
  • Living Donor Match – Answered Prayers
  • Waiting for a Kidney Donor
• The Divine Timing of the Kidney Transplant
  • My Kidney Journey Through Scripture
  • The Puzzle Pieces Came Together
• The Night Before My Kidney Transplant
  • Recipient Surgery Day
  • Transplant Recovery Update (11/9/2025)
  • One Month Post-Kidney Transplant… Post (11/22/2025)
  • Marking Six Weeks of Transplant Recovery (12/3/2025)
  • Two Months Post-Kidney Transplant (12/22/2025)
  • Three Months Post-Kidney Transplant (1/22/2026)
  • Life After My Kidney Transplant
  • How Creativity Is Helping Me Heal
  • My Six-Inch Scar
• I’m Thankful…
  • Thinking about my Kidney Donor
  • (endless) Thank Yous…
  • About Kidney Transplant Care Teams
  • Support System: My Parents – My Care Team
  • Support System: My Sister, Angie
  • Happy birthday, Jeff!
  • A Letter to My Old Kidneys
• Movie Quotes That Summed Up My Kidney Journey
• Things People Say to Kidney Transplant Recipients
• My Kidney Dialysis & Transplant – Fears

Kidney Dialysis (Chad):

• Being on Kidney Dialysis
  • My Experience at the Kidney Dialysis Clinic
• Combo #2: Peritoneal Dialysis and Diabetes
• To eat, or not eat, that is the question
  • About Kidney Dialysis

Living Kidney Donor: (Jeff):

• Why did I choose to donate?
  • Reasoned Response – Part I
  • Worldview Response – Part II
• Is this God’s Will for Me?
• Charging Orders
• Living Kidney Donor – Journal Entries
  • Living Kidney Donor – Journal (All Posts)

Kidney Transplant Info:

• Cross-Match Kidney Transplant 101
  • When the Donor Match Isn’t Perfect, a Chain Can Be
• Kidney Transplant Breakthroughs
• The Hurdles of a Kidney Transplant
  • Importance of Self-Care Post-Kidney Transplant
  • Lifelong Challenges After a Kidney Transplant
  • Anti-Rejection Medications 101
• Kidney Transplant 101
• First Kidney Transplant
• Two Types of Kidney Donation
• Kidney Transplant Myths vs. Reality 
• Kidney Transplant – FAQ
• Kidney Transplant – Stats (2004) | Kidney Transplant – Stats (2025)
• Meet Our Transplant Doctor
• Medical Illiteracy

Kidney Donation Info:

• Give the gift of life through living organ donation
• Kidney Transplantation at Nebraska Medicine
• Living organ donors help fill a shortage
• Become an Organ Donor
• Why become a living donor?
• Living Kidney Donor – FAQ
• End the Wait Foundation
• YourChange™ makes a huge difference
• Giving Tuesday
• National Donor Day (February 14th)
• Confessions of a Good Samaritan (documentary)
• Driven to Save Lives (documentary)
• A Stunt to Raise Awareness

Kidneys:

• Kidneys 101
• Did you know?
• Things I Thought Were Big Deals Before I Needed a Kidney
• Pre-CKD Foods to Avoid
• Signs You May Have Kidney Disease
• Unknowns of Chronic Kidney Disease
• Universal Chronic Kidney Disease Screening?
• A silent kidney crisis is spreading faster than anyone expected
• What You Can Do To Prevent Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
• Quotes to Inspire People Going Through Health Challenges
• March is National Kidney Month
• World Kidney Day (March 12, 2026)

Kidney Humor:

• Transplanted Organs Attend Their Support Group
• The TV Show I Never Auditioned For
  • My Kidney Transplant Recovery – A New Medical Show
• Kidney Stand‑Up Routine
• Kidney Job Interview
• Dating Match Profile for Sidney
• Sidney’s Yelp Review (Four Stars)
• Kidney Glossary (Real Definitions vs Chad’s)
• If My Kidney Could Talk
  • If My Kidney Could Text
  • Dear Sidney,
  • My Overachieving, Introverted Kidney
• Kidney Transplant Superpowers?
• Sidney Goes to UNMC

Guest Blog Posts:

• Guest Post: Help Angela Find a Living Kidney Donor
• Guest Post: A Father. A Survivor. Hoping for More Time.
• Guest Post: A Story of Hope
• Guest Post: Trying to Live Fully While Fear Keeps Knocking
• Guest Post: The Scar by Kathy Hornyak
• Guest Post: Second Chance: My experience with kidney failure (book) 
• A real kidney need: Katherine Langan-Fossberg
• Guest Post: How Deciding to Donate a Kidney Saved My Own Life

Other Kidney Related Stories:

• The Kidney Collective Podcast
• Other Transplant Stories
  • A Worthy Story: Nebraska Medicine Completes One of the Largest Internal Living-Donor Kidney Transplant Chains in the United States
  • Nebraska Organ Donations in 2025
  • Kidney transplant recipients and donors meet 
  • How People Met Their Kidney Donor
  • Wife donates kidney to husband
  • Things to Have Known Before a Kidney Transplant ~ Jack Fassnacht
  • Son donates kidney to save his father’s life
  • Recipient meets anonymous donor
  • Kidney donation sparks transplant chain
  • First an experimental pig kidney, now a human kidney
  • Kidney Disease Doesn’t Discriminate ~ Bijou Phillips
  • Donating a Kidney: Jesse Eisenberg’s Story
  • Teen with kidney disease finds donor living minutes away
• Organ & Kidney Related Plots in TV Shows & Movies

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