{"id":603,"date":"2010-04-10T18:12:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog1\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-04-10T18:12:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T22:12:53","slug":"a-sweet-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/10\/a-sweet-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sweet Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in England donated her kidney to her husband after finding out she was a match, and I love (and completely understand) what she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEveryone kept saying to me \u2018you are so brave\u2019 but I work for a psychiatrist and he said to me: \u2018You are brave enough to have this operation, but you are not brave enough to live without your husband \u2018 and that\u2019s when I realised he was right \u2013 I couldn\u2019t manage life without Barry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People who receive living kidney transplants live up to 20 years longer, while people with kidney transplants from cadavers usually only live 10 years longer. I hope that I&#8217;m a match someday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/9oGP8B\" target=\"_blank\">See the rest of the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone kept saying to me \u2018you are so brave\u2019 but I work for a psychiatrist and he said to me: \u2018You are brave enough to have this operation, but you are not brave enough to live without your husband \u2018 and that\u2019s when I realised he was right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[33,36,64,47],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-ckd-adventure","category-quotes-2","tag-glomerulonephritis","tag-kidney","tag-pete","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DIlZ-9J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindsaykeegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}