Happy Camper

Today I went out with some folks from the Kidney Foundation to Camp Twin Lakes. The camp is a camp exclusively for kids with special needs. It is about an hour east of Atlanta. Various groups use the camp for a weekend or a week for camp. This week was the Kidney Foundation's Camp Independence for kids on dialysis, with chronic kidney disease, or have had a kidney or other kind of transplant.

The camp has everything that kids would want. It has horses, a ropes course, fishing, arts and crafts, swimming pool with water slide, archery, mini-golf, tennis, boats, and many other things. Everything is wheelchair accessible. There is also an infirmary where the kids go for hemodialysis if they are on it.

It was great watching over 100 kids be kids. They didnt have to worry about being different. They didnt have to worry about what they can and cant eat. They boys could take off their shirts and swim without having to worry what the other kids would think about their scars or if they were a little puffy from taking steroids.

Overall, I really enjoyed going out to the camp and the whole experience.

Where Were You When...

In all of our lives there are events that sears itself in our memories. I vividly remember when I first learned of the first space shuttle disaster. I can tell you where I was, who I was with and what I was doing. Our parents remember when Kennedy was shot in the same way.

I also remember the first time I saw my niece, the first time I met my wife and when I proposed to her. I remember vividly the way my wife looked at our wedding. I remember just staring at her throughout the ceremony.

Yesterday I had an event happen to me that I will forever remember the details surrounding it. As most of you know, about 2 years ago I ound out that my kidneys had shut down. Yesterday I received a call from someone that matched as a donor and now we are trying to set up a date for the surgery to occur.