I was recently reminded that when the hits keep coming that’s exactly when you double down on trust!

A few weeks ago I was driving down a busy street in my neighborhood on the way to a medical procedure when a mural on the side of a building jumped out at me…

Message received.

Rewind to the start of the new year when I was a few days into a 20-plus day hospital stay with my daughter after a major surgery for her chronic medical condition when I had to get to work switching all of my medical specialists for my chronic health condition due to an insurance change.

After 25 years with one transplant center, I had to switch to the one across town. All I could keep thinking was,” Really?!? Now?!? In the midst of everything else I have to deal with this – I feel completely fine!” But I pressed on in order to have my care team “all set” should I need them…but I KNEW I wouldn’t.

You would think after all these years helping clients see how life happens for them

and not to them I would remember that trust makes life better.

It took awhile but I eventually came to the conclusion that maybe having a second set of eyes on this second gift of life was exactly what I needed.

And it was! Although I felt fine and all my “numbers” looked good, the protocol my new transplant center follows detected an active rejection of my eight-years out kidney transplant.

After an extra procedure and test to determine the best course of treatment my new care team and I are on the path to help this transplant have a long, healthy life! If I hadn’t been kicked in the butt to make the switch the rejection could have gone undetected for a long time and potentially damaged the kidney and shortened its life span.