This has been a very good week for Stacey Simms.
“I feel the best I have in the last 10 years,” she told the Times-Herald on Friday.
On Wednesday, the 28-year-old Moose Javian returned home from her kidney transplant surgery in Edmonton. As well, on Friday she learned the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health announced it would resume a kidney transplant program, allowing kidney patients to have surgeries in the province
“I think it’s great for people who can’t travel to another province.”
On Aug. 24, Simms' own out-of-province surgery began. She received a live kidney transplant from her father, Larry Sykora. The surgery took about five hours and Simms said she had one “bad day” following the transplant.
However, since then she said life has improved substantially — her eyes turned white again, she lost 25 pounds in retained water, she can taste and her energy levels are higher than they have been in five years.
“I feel so good.”
Since a young age, Simms has suffered from a rare kidney disease, but the problem went undiagnosed until age 24.
For more on this story, read an upcoming edition of the Times-Herald.
