Give A Kidney & Part Of A Liver
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This morning was my August check-up at Hartford Hospital. As always, there was more blood taken along with the usual poking and prodding. All appeared fine…then I got a call later in the day from the hospital. They were concerned about the creatinine levels in my kidney which should improve by drinking more water. So, all that is needed is to just keep drinking.

Everything else physically is fine and I am continuing to feel better every day.

I’m sorry there isn’t much more to write about right now. I am playing golf, but only nine holes. I actually started playing again a week or two after I left the hospital…don’t tell anyone.

Bye the way, Eileen’s kidney is doing better in her than my existing one is in me. I guess mine just misses is left partner. I told it to get used to it…it’s not coming back!

People who haven’t seen me in a couple of weeks keep saying: “God, you look so much better than last time I saw you!” Just how bad did I look? But when a woman now asks: “How do you feel?” I just open my arms and respond: “Feel for yourself!”

It was eight weeks ago today when I gave Eileen my kidney. I realized today that, besides the tiredness from the anesthesia, I feel like nothing happened to me at all. Really, I have no pain or discomfort whatsoever.

I am enjoying the weight loss though. I’m still hanging around 180 – 183 lbs. I used to model in the eighties and nineties and was encouraged this past March to pursue it again. This weight, for me, is a good modeling weight. I had a shoot this morning and have one this weekend. I’m looking forward to putting together another composite sheet and start marketing myself again. This should be fun. The one thing modeling has prepared me for, is how to take rejection. It doesn’t get much more personal than that, ‘rejected because you don’t look good enough’.