Tawana Looney
Appearances
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The First Woman To Get A New Kind Of Kidney Transplant
No weakness whatsoever. No tiredness, no fatigue, no swelling from fluid intake. I can eat more. I can drink more. I can walk longer distance. It's just amazing.
Short Wave
The First Woman To Get A New Kind Of Kidney Transplant
I was like, wow. I told the nurse I'm peeing. She said, no kidding. She said, you're peeing a lot, which is a good thing. It was exciting to me.
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The First Woman To Get A New Kind Of Kidney Transplant
I just want to go shopping and not have to sit down. And I want to eat what I want to eat while I'm shopping. And I want to travel and stay more than three days. I ain't got to come back to dialysis. I ain't got to leave a day early to be at dialysis at 4.30 in the morning, 5 o'clock.
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The First Woman To Get A New Kind Of Kidney Transplant
I had one tell me, it's not in the Bible for us to receive human, for a human to receive animal poisons. I said, you ate bacon this morning for breakfast, didn't you? So it's, it's life saving.
Up First from NPR
Trump Meets CEOs At Mar-A-Lago, School Shooting In Wisconsin, Pig Kidney Transplant
I feel blessed. I'm excited.
Up First from NPR
Trump Meets CEOs At Mar-A-Lago, School Shooting In Wisconsin, Pig Kidney Transplant
To get a kidney. You know, it's going to change my life. We're going to make history today.