Blackthorne519

Transplant surgery is awesome. (Relatively speaking). I've had two kidney transplants.

We're called Infamous Quests - we've released two games so far, Quest for Infamy and The Order of the Thorne: The King's Challenge. They're point & click adventure games.

I think a lot of designers out there still love and admire Sierra. I know I do - I run a small indie company that makes point & click games in the vein of the Sierra games I grew up loving. I played a lot of Sierra Games over various platforms, too - from the Apple II to the IIgs (which I really loved) to the PC & Mac.

Hey guy. I was diagnosed with ESRD at age 24 - I was wheeled into the ER, and put on dialysis in an emergency setting... never knew I had something wrong with me, I only knew that I felt like shit for a long time and no one could help me. My father donated a kidney to me later that year, and that seemed to be doing well, but in a follow up surgery, the surgeon nicked and damaged the kidney and I lost it. I then was on dialysis for another 6 years - I did in center hemo-dialysis for a while. Right before I had to go back on dialysis, I met a girl, who stood by me, and we eventually got married. We started doing in-home hemo with NxStage - and exactly 2 years ago, out of the blue, I was offered a kidney. It was a high risk kidney - it had come from someone who was an intravenous drug user. They had tested the organ, and it was functional and clean - but they say there is always a risk of something like Hepatitis hidden in it, despite the testing. I took the risk, and as of yesterday - my creatinine is 1.4, and I feel amazing.

They gave me the same odds - 5-10 years. I did it. Goddamn it, it was hard though. It was so fucking hard. Really - I know how you feel. My life was taken from me, my youth was robbed. I couldn't travel, I couldn't really do much. But I managed to struggle through it, get married, I started a company that makes video games... it's hard as fuck, I ain't gonna lie - but you can do it.

If you're looking for more support and people like you, try looking up "I Hate Dialysis" they have some pretty amazing forums with some people who will know exactly what you're going through. And if you want to ask ME anything, please feel free.

Bt

Major bullshit on that one. You would have killed it. That is a shame.