WEBVTT NOTE language:en-US NOTE Confidence: 0.9127011299133301 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.920 So it was my senior year in high school. NOTE Confidence: 0.9726075530052185 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:03.680 I was sick a lot. NOTE Confidence: 0.9011995196342468 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:06.664 So I was in and out of different clinics and NOTE Confidence: 0.9011995196342468 00:00:06.727 --> 00:00:10.719 emergency rooms and I just kept contracting different illnesses. NOTE Confidence: 0.8797690868377686 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:12.609 But at the time I didn't, I didn't have any NOTE Confidence: 0.8797690868377686 00:00:12.653 --> 00:00:13.400 health insurance. NOTE Confidence: 0.8955560922622681 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:15.707 So I didn't find out till maybe a year and NOTE Confidence: 0.8955560922622681 00:00:15.762 --> 00:00:17.960 a half later that it was kidney disease. NOTE Confidence: 0.9228622913360596 00:00:18.040 --> 00:00:25.320 I was overwhelmed, probably depressed, confused. NOTE Confidence: 0.9773252606391907 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:28.151 I didn't really know what to do or what not NOTE Confidence: 0.9773252606391907 00:00:28.209 --> 00:00:28.559 to do. NOTE Confidence: 0.9102377891540527 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:31.959 I don't remember meeting Kenneth, right, He's just always been NOTE Confidence: 0.9102377891540527 00:00:32.005 --> 00:00:32.279 there. NOTE Confidence: 0.8986725807189941 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:34.840 But he's, you know, a close family friend. NOTE Confidence: 0.9452111124992371 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:39.520 We've been friends for over 30 something years, right. NOTE Confidence: 0.9609291553497314 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:40.640 So we go way back. NOTE Confidence: 0.9470074772834778 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:43.960 We've always always been close. NOTE Confidence: 0.8514588475227356 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:47.193 Can't always had like some health issues, but it was NOTE Confidence: 0.8514588475227356 00:00:47.252 --> 00:00:50.344 I never felt like they were like real serious because NOTE Confidence: 0.8514588475227356 00:00:50.403 --> 00:00:51.919 Ken did everything we did. NOTE Confidence: 0.8019284009933472 00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:57.384 Dialysis affects the African American community like, you know, it's, NOTE Confidence: 0.8019284009933472 00:00:57.460 --> 00:01:00.360 it's huge, just the lack of resources. NOTE Confidence: 0.8413978815078735 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.274 Many of our patients come into dialysis and they crash NOTE Confidence: 0.8413978815078735 00:01:04.335 --> 00:01:04.520 in. NOTE Confidence: 0.6988673210144043 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:06.570 I, I think there's a lot of people in the NOTE Confidence: 0.6988673210144043 00:01:06.611 --> 00:01:08.920 city who don't, who don't have, they don't have doctors. NOTE Confidence: 0.9155812859535217 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:12.473 They're finding out how sick they are because they are NOTE Confidence: 0.9155812859535217 00:01:12.537 --> 00:01:16.480 in somebody's emergency room and that's how they are diagnosed NOTE Confidence: 0.9155812859535217 00:01:16.543 --> 00:01:20.041 or the first time they probably ever hearing about, you NOTE Confidence: 0.9155812859535217 00:01:20.104 --> 00:01:21.440 know, kidney failure. NOTE Confidence: 0.9416362047195435 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:28.360 Every aspect of my life changed after my transplant. NOTE Confidence: 0.9345715641975403 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:32.520 I had way more energy, I had way more focus. NOTE Confidence: 0.9747248888015747 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:33.560 I think I was. NOTE Confidence: 0.8459252119064331 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:35.880 I saw things so much clearer. NOTE Confidence: 0.9696944952011108 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.579 He knows exactly what those patients are going through and NOTE Confidence: 0.9696944952011108 00:01:47.629 --> 00:01:48.879 I knew he would be great. NOTE Confidence: 0.9366785883903503 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.677 You know, we all talk about understanding, but he can NOTE Confidence: 0.9366785883903503 00:01:51.727 --> 00:01:54.707 truly say that he understands what these patients are going NOTE Confidence: 0.9366785883903503 00:01:54.758 --> 00:01:56.880 through because he's he's been through it. NOTE Confidence: 0.9356405735015869 00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:01.974 I think my life would have been different when I NOTE Confidence: 0.9356405735015869 00:02:02.059 --> 00:02:06.324 first got diagnosed if I had somebody like me just NOTE Confidence: 0.9356405735015869 00:02:06.409 --> 00:02:09.479 to kind of let me know that it's OK. NOTE Confidence: 0.9205030202865601 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.925 I try to use those experiences to just encourage the NOTE Confidence: 0.9205030202865601 00:02:13.994 --> 00:02:17.765 patients to for one, to give them more encouragement to NOTE Confidence: 0.9205030202865601 00:02:17.834 --> 00:02:18.520 do better.