A Partial List

Things to Worry About

·         What if they forget I’m a LIVING donor and they take all my organs instead of just one?

·         What if the nephrologist and the nurse get in a fight and start throwing needles at each other and all of them get stuck in me?

·         What if I’m a big baby about pain and I whine and whimper for two days?

·         What if I really like narcotics and become addicted?

·         What if none of my friends come to visit?

·         What if my young friends come, and they jump up in my lap and land right on my incision and I use words that children shouldn’t hear?

·         What if my husband can’t work out his schedule to take care of me when I need it?

·         What if the anesthesiologist passes out at the sight of blood?

·         What if they lose my glasses while I’m unconscious?

·         What if all the bills get sent to my insurance instead of my recipients, and I end up in collections because my insurance won’t pay?

·         What if my dogs forget who I am while I’m in the hospital?

·         What if the recipient’s body rejects my kidney and doesn’t get better and still has to wait for another kidney?

·         What if my Kindle gets stolen and I have nothing to read?

·         What if the tests show something wrong, and I can’t donate at all?

·         What if I chicken out at the last minute, and someone has to tell the recipient they don’t get a kidney after all?

·         What if I obsess over every stupid thing that could possibly go wrong?