Tag Archives: Vancouver General Hospital

In Two Days – Two Years!

Posted on April 22, 2021 by dfolstad58

Thank you for visiting today, I am both looking ahead and looking back today. I know I could write much more about this experience♥♥♥ I hope that this post will refresh your own appreciation for the treasure that being alive … Continue reading →

Posted in FAVORITE POSTS - A Few of them ♥, health | Tagged anniversary, appreciation, family, hope, Kidney, kidney transplant, new life, Penticton General Hospital, surgery, Vancouver General Hospital | 43 Comments

At long last – new hope

Posted on June 20, 2019 by dfolstad58

Dear friends and readers, I wondered what to title this post. My posts became especially irregular after my failing kidney transplant resulted in returning to reliance on dialysis three times a week for five hours to live. What most people … Continue reading →

Posted in health, Uncategorized | Tagged grateful, hemodialysis, hope, life, Organ donation, organ donor, organ transplant, surgery, Transplant, Vancouver General Hospital | 35 Comments

Take the smile vitamin every day, or twice a day

Posted on May 13, 2013 by dfolstad58

Long long time ago, a lesson was learned by me. That lesson was to laugh, to smile, even when on the inside I felt the opposite. The year was 1986, and it was the third year in a row, that … Continue reading →

Posted in humor, Thinking Out loud, Uncategorized | Tagged Dialysis, Humor, Kidney, Kidney transplantation, laughter as medicine, Vancouver General Hospital | Leave a comment

July 7, 1987 – A New Life, a new freedom

Posted on July 7, 2012 by dfolstad58

Today is July 7, 2012. Today I celebrate 25 years since my successful kidney transplant at Vancouver General Hospital. I had always enjoyed good health growing up, so it was shock to me at 18 years old to have myself … Continue reading →