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I was on the list for a kidney and
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pancreas transplant and my time came up
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on February 14 2013 and I decided to go
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for it
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so when I came back I said to my sister
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and my dad who are in my bro I feel
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great this is awesome and then ten days
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later I told my nurses that each day it
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was hard for me to walk and on the tenth
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day I discovered that I had an allergic
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reaction to the medicine the
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anti-rejection medicine that I was on I
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was paralyzed
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the infection went into my spinal cord
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and didn't exactly separate but it made
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me unable to walk from my waist down or
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feel from my waist down
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my sister has set me up with Tewksbury
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State Hospital and I was there for two
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and three quarters of a year two years
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plus I wasn't able to go to anything I
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couldn't go to the store I couldn't go
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to the only places I could go were for
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holidays I would go during the summer at
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my birthday I would go
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home and Thanksgiving Christmas Easter
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one hole that was supposed to be in
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Burlington because I wanted to stay
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close to both my parents did it piano so
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they told me about a home in Billerica
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and I moved in on the 21st we get to go
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places and do things it's just so much
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more exciting than living in a hospital
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my friend who I moved in the house with
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we are basically the cookers of the
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house which we love
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another thing we get a lot of is our own
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personal care the difference between
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living in the hospital to living here is
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they made the helpers here made it clear
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to me that I'm not in the hospital I
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don't have to get up at 9 o'clock I am
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living my life and I love it