: " The only thing the doctors can do in order to keep me alive while I am waiting for a kidney is put me on dialysis. This is a very painful and physically draining ordeal. I have to do it every other day for four hours at a time. The dialysis machine removes the waste from my system that the kidneys cannot. The machine also removes water, vitamins, and nutrients from my system at the same time it removes the waste. All of these items in my blood turn to poison when they cannot be removed naturally. I have many medical complications due to dialysis. Vomiting, nausea, extreme pain, the inability to eat, the inability to drink, the inability to walk, insomnia, and extreme fatigue are only some of the complications. I have had added stress to my heart on a dialysis machine, and needed to be rushed to the emergency room several times for possible heart attacks. I cannot live on dialysis for more than a few months. It is too strenuous on my body. I take immune suppressants in order to keep my adopted kidney alive as long as possible. These drugs I take have given me: high blood pressure, cervical cancer, sensitivity to sunlight, hand tremors, headaches, nausea, an ulcer, easily scaring skin, more facial hair, abnormal menstrual cycles, water retention, brittle bones (I have broken several bones since I have been taking the drugs), increased appetite, stereotypical features such as round face and abdomen, thinning hair, blemishes, ras"