Kidney Recipient

Loletha Glover

Loletha Glover waited nearly four years for a new kidney. Every day, five times a day, she relied on dialysis to keep her alive. Despite the physical exhaustion caused by the treatments, she worked and kept a positive attitude.

Everywhere Loletha went, though, she carried a pager. It became her lifeline, her only way of knowing if there just might be a kidney for her. Her hopes were raised three different times when the pager went off, but each time it wasn’t meant to be. The kidneys weren’t a match. "It was disappointing," Loletha admits. Still she kept the faith.

Then September 23, 1992, the beeper sounded again. This time it was a match. The surgery went well. Soon Loletha was back at work, no longer dependent on dialysis.

"I felt like a brand new person," she says. "I could feel renewed strength and my body was no longer tired. Being off dialysis gave me a new sense of freedom."

But there was more good news to come. A few years later, Loletha married and in August 2000 she gave birth to her daughter, Sareniah. "All of this was possible because one wonderful person decided to donate their organs," said Loletha.

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