@sallycurrier, I want to welcome you to Connect. I am happy to meet you and I thank you for sharing your awesome gratitude experience. Organ donation is a gift that gives much more than a renewed healthy life. In fact I have a t-shirt that reads: "Organ Donation is a gift for life". Nice, but doesn't begin to express what it is like to wake up from that surgery, does it?

I have read several members tell about their need to convince their loved to allow them to be tested as living donor. How long ago was your transplant? Do you remember if that was what you had to do? Or, was it the other way around where your friend had to convince you to accept their offer? If you are comfortable doing so, please tell us about the 'beginning' of your journey?

@sallycurrier, Have you had a chance to look thru the Transplant Discussion Group? As a member, you can join in anywhere at any time. Here are a few that I have selected as a starting point.
-Living Donor Process
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/living-donor-process/
-Sweats after a kidney transplant
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/sweats-after-a-kidney-transplant/
-What do you do when your temperature goes Up, Up,..?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/what-do-you-do-when-youir-temperature-goes-up-up-d/