 I'm participating in The Kidney Foundation of Canada's
 Give the Gift of Life Walk Ontario 2009 Please support my campaign to help Canadians living with kidney disease by donating today! Your contribution will benefit The Kidney Foundation of Canada, the national volunteer organization committed to reducing the burden of kidney disease.
http://kidneykorner.com/AK/Gift_of_Life_Walk_2009.html
An estimated 2 million Canadians have kidney disease or are at risk while each day an average of 14 Canadians learn that their kidneys have failed. In 2008…- There were 4330 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant.
- 215 people died while waiting for an organ transplant.
- 303 people withdrew from the waiting list.
(People are withdrawn from the waiting list when they become too sick to receive a transplant, opt out of the surgery, or their health improves.) - 2083 trasplants took place. 1541 of those transplants were made possible because of deceased donors.
** All Statistics are from the Canadian Institute for Health Information - who, inturn, gets their information directly from the provincial medical bodies that coordinate transplant. Secure online donations can be made with VISA, MasterCard and American Express. An electronic tax receipt will be sent to you by email within minutes of making your pledge. You can make an online donation now. Click here to get started: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=2254627  Since its creation in 1964, The Kidney Foundation has helped millions of Canadians suffering from kidney failure and related disorders such as hypertension, diabetes, urinary tract infections and kidney stones. Today, the Foundation continues its focus on strategies to improve the organ donor rate in Canada. It is also exploring preventive approaches to detect chronic renal insufficiency at an early stage, delay its progression and prevent complications associated with the disease. Please help Canadians living with kidney disease - donate now by clicking here: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=2254627 Thank you for your generous support! Angie Essery Want to register yourself to walk? More info on how to register yourself here! and if you are in Windsor and want to walk with me this is the walk I will be walking: Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Registration Time: 9:00 a.m.
Warm-Up Time: 9:45 a.m.
Walk Start Time: 10:00 a.m.
Route Length: approx. 5 km
Kidney Foundation Contact Information in Windsor: 519-977-9211 ext. 23
Want to buy shirts or a Green Bracelet to support awareness? Check out the list of items here! | 
bouncy
It has been a long while and a long winding road but the kidney is working and I have been off dialysis for over a year now! I was finally able to get off Nov 14th 2007 but then I got so busy with appointments and then had complications that ended me back up in the hospital again in June 2008 and then another hospital in July 2008. Found out I had 3 abdominal abscesses that were made worse but the immunosuppressant transplant medications! So I am all better now but it took me til Nov 2008 to recover. Then all the time since then I had been catching up and then I had site problems Dec 2008 and then Jan 2009 I lost my domain name. 
