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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.

In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.

I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.