GREENVILLE - Linda Manos said 2008 wasn't such a bad year and thinks 2009 will be a good one, too.
Manos, who has been undergoing kidney dialysis treatments three times a week for the third year, said she realizes that these treatments will be a lifetime commitment.
Knowing now that she will not ever be able to be a candidate for a kidney transplant has made it easier for her to go on with her life.
"I know I'll be on dialysis the rest of my life and that's fine," she said. "Now, I know that, there will be not be so many up and downs."
Her troubles began at the age of 26 when she developed ovarian cancer.
"I was fine until 1999," said the 48-year-old. "I started having kidney problems. The treatment from the radiation basically fried my insides. Now, they're not doing radiation anymore because of that. That's a good thing."
Ureter stents were put in so the kidneys would drain.
"Everything was fine until I got knocked down by some kids at the fair in 2004," Manos said. "I broke my wrist and damaged the ureters in my kidneys."
Then, in October 2004, she started hemorrhaging from her kidneys.
"I was passing clots the size of a newborn baby and passing out," she recalled. "I was in Good Samaritan Hospital for almost a year."
She came home in August 2005, and not long afterwards was CareFlighted from Wayne Hospital back to good Sam.To read more of this story call 937-548-3151 or click here to subscribe
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