And so it begins

At my last appointment, the nephrologist actually offered to give me a referral for transplant. And then a week later I got THIS in the mail from my insurance company.

Crap! It's getting real now.

If something like that doesn't take the wind out of your sails, I don't know what will.

Granted I had let my doctor know a couple of months ago that I wanted to be screened and ready to go as soon as my eGFR hit 20. Did I think it would be this year? No. My estimates were three years from now.

Yet the combination of the four point eGFR drop + the transplant referral leads me to believe that my DOCTOR believes I should hit 20 within the year.

I don't think I'm going to be able to last until the artificial kidney comes out. :-(