Transplants, and Breast Cancer

Greetings! I recently had an interview with a patient named Doris Harris. She is a strong and resilient lady. She has been through more than you will ever know.

To have gone through kidney disease since 1992, and then in December 2010 to go through the extra surprise of finding out she had Breast Cancer.

So this is how her journey began, and it's alright to tear up, cry, love, adore, and praise her journey. Doris Harris had a lot of problems with having bladder infections and kidney infections as a child, but even though she had all these problems she still managed to have a pretty good childhood. She played softball, cheerleader twice ( Once for Denbigh, and once for Fort Eustis Eagles), She also won the Miss Bronco for her cheer-leading team. Doris also loved at more than one time to sing. She would love to harmonize with her mother and aunt. As time went by things were great, and life was good.

The journey began with Doris Harris getting pregnant, and God blessed her with a baby boy 5 pounds and 2 ounces. He is a nice and quiet boy. He learned how to dance when he went to HHS. He was on a dance team called The Untouchables: Untouchable by man, but touch by GOD. From there People started graduating so we decided to come up with another dance team my called Kollisionz With God. That won first place in the Dime Production "Dance Explosion."

It was in the year of 1992 that the journey got real with Doris coming down with the flu, and for some reason couldn't shake it. Come to find out it was kidney disease (end stage kidney failure). In 1999 was the first time that she received a kidney transplant. That didn't last a month. So I had to go back on the waiting list for the next one. So she went back on dialysis, and had to do another evaluation for another kidney transplant. The second one came as always the phone call, and then another one telling you to come (2003).This time she had a roommate and the lady had given her mother a kidney. This kidney lasted a great 7 years before it gave way, but I always accepted it, and knew that I had to go back to getting stuck in a chair, and stuck with needles on dialysis, and to go back on the list another evaluation.

So this time when she went to do her evaluation Doris finds out that she has a lump in her breast, but it was caught early enough for her not to have to do chemo. Doris did have to take a pill for 7 years though. Once she found out that all she had to do is have the lump taken care of then she could be active on the transplant list. So there was a surgery, and the doctor took out the lump and left the tit, but the doctor said he didn't take enough out so he want to go in again. Another surgery that costed more than the first. What tripped Doris out was that she told him the first time to take the whole tit off, and the doctor said he didn't have to. This time he took that sucker off. I went back to dialysis, and soon they gave me the OKAY to become active on the transplant list. Doris was working at Busch Gardens and the night before Father's Day! Doris received the call to be ready to come. At 12: 00 midnight Father's Day 2013. Doris received her third kidney transplant. This is the one she is carrying around with her right now. It has been 8 years so far for this transplant, and 11 years cancer free.

This is her story the short version.

Thank you in advance for the read.

By: Mama Karnage