Roland French
September 2018
Roland
French
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BSN, RN
Renal Transplant
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Norfolk
,
VA
United States

 

 

 

When I was on dialysis I reached a point of feeling hopeless. I was sleeping during the night while I was doing dialysis. I was teaching full time, and I am a wife and mother. I had a donor for a transplant, but the timing was not working out. I left Roland a voicemail on a Friday. Roland said he would work on trying to help me get the date moved up for my transplant and together we did!
Hope is the expectation of good and Roland's goodness helped me get the transplant. The timing couldn't have been more perfect! I had just enough days to get me through the end of my school year, I was able to get the substitute I needed to take care of my first graders, I was able to help my daughter and her friends get to school at different times during the SOL's, I was able to be there for my dad dealing with a diagnosis of colon cancer, my mother-in-law who's surgery for cancer, and my niece who had gallbladder surgery. Timing is everything and Roland helped make it happen. I couldn't be more grateful! The action he took helped me live again and it spread to others in my life that needed my comfort and help. Thank you so much, Roland, from the bottom of my heart.