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Just absolutely amazing. I mean, first of all, you know,
starting the night before my surgery I just got so many -- got so many great emails.
I got an email from my surgeon the night before the surgery telling me to sleep
well, that he was gonna take care of me, he's gonna take care of my gift.
It was exactly the reassurance I needed. I got some other emails from people.
It was just incredible. I went in the next morning just -- just
completely fully ready for everything. My nephew documented everything on his
iPhone, so I have pictures, I have some very unflattering pictures here of me.
So this is before surgery. That's my nephew.
I can tell though that I'm a little bit stressed coz I have -- my cheeks are kind
of tight. Oh, there come's Bob, Doctor Montgomery.
My fear was is that my kidney -- that Robert wouldn't get a kidney that worked
or my kidney wouldn't work. It's the action shots.
That's when it first came out of me.
And then that's where they're running the fluid through it to get all the blood out.
That's when they wheeled me back in to see Robert, so there he is all ready for
his surgery. He's all ready.
Look how happy he looks, oh my gosh, he's so happy.
You know, he was hours away from getting his new kidney and I think the fact that I
was up and I was doing well and I was all chatty and everything, I'm sure that
helped made him feel better knowing that, you know, that I was done and I had come
though it and made me feel better to see him.
And there it is on its way, ha-ha, on its way to new life.
So it's like -- I mean, it's like I hit the jackpot coz his kidney worked and my
kidney worked. Hi, this is Pamela Paulk on the Johns Hopkins.
I'm the person that your wife got my kidney.
The transplant coordinators came to see me and I asked how my kidney was doing that
had gone to Saint Louis and -- coz I hadn't asked before.
I hadn't asked anything about how it was or anything.
And they told me it doing well. Good.
Well, listen, I'm so happy. I'm so, so happy.
Thank you. Okay, buh-bye.
It was [inaudible] -- yeah, so two lives.
You know, Robert having a kidney was the important thing, but knowing too that my
kidney had lived, it's unbelievable.
It was all [inaudible]. It's all worth more than anything.