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Good afternoon everybody out there listening to my show, the Church of the Souls Evolution.
I am the Reverend Blake Ruby and welcome to another show.
It is Saturday the 6th of June.
I have missed the last two Saturday shows because I was in Burbank with my son Bryce,
Burbank, California.
During that time we went on a four day cruise.
I was just telling Thomas we had an excellent time together.
It's always a good thing my son because you might have probably said it before he's
a two time kidney transplant recipient.
I donated one of my kidneys to him in 1995 when I was on active duty.
And right now I am in a battle so to speak with the Veterans Administration as to whether
or not I deserve to get disability for the loss of a kidney.
And I have got a lawyer helping me and he has helped me so far.
I am at 100% of the ability.
But when we first started the plan when I first hired the lawyer, got him on board because
it's kind of pro bono, you know, he gets 20% of all back pay or claims that are approved
by the VA.
The plan was in the very beginning that we would try to get the 30% disability for the
loss of a kidney.
However, the VA has maintained over the years even since my retirement physical in 2004
that the surgery was elected which means voluntary.
Our contention is that it wasn't voluntary.
Sometimes kidney donations are voluntary.
Other people they donate kidneys to their brothers, the mothers, family members, in other words.
But I think personally that they should change the regulation because you can't really classify
a kidney donation in the same classification as of a set to me, for example, or cosmetic
breast reduction.
It's not the same because you actually change your savings some of life.
And indeed that was the way it was with my son.
He was 10 months old at the time.
So let me give you a little background into that.
My son, Bryce was born in 1994.
During his fetal development, there had been a blockage in the yerter which caused urine
to back up into his kidneys and stunt their growth.
And my ex-wife had a history of kidney disease in her family.
Her father died of kidney disease I think age 44, I forget.
I didn't know that at the time and that probably wouldn't have changed anything anyway.
But it is what it is.
And so the moment he was born the doctors were able to tell that he didn't have full function
of his kidneys.
And right after he was born they did what they call a phyophthalamine which is opening
the skin in the back, lower back behind the kidneys to allow the urine to drain out.
And into the diapers and that's the way it was for three months.
And not surprisingly one of them became infected.
In fact, I can still remember the way they looked.
You could pull the skin back with your fingers and look actually looking inside his body.
The hope was that the kidneys would grow.
And we would say indeed my ex-wife and I would say grow kidneys grow.
They were about maybe a quarter of the size of them or what they should have been normal
kidneys.
But unfortunately they didn't grow.
And so at age three months he had the kidneys removed and was put on peritoneal dialysis.
Now this is a three month old baby put on peritoneal dialysis and if you're not familiar with peritoneal
dialysis.
I'll tell you what the process is.
It's different from hemodialysis where it's usually something for an older person.
Hemodialysis is where they you go into an office three times a week of building a place
and they filtered the blood from your body through a machine.
It's really kind of like blood goes in, comes back, blood goes out excuse me.
It comes back in filtered, the machine filters it.
And so a person can do that three or four times a week.
Go in there for I'm not sure how long maybe a couple of hours.
It's from what I hear not a very pleasant process to have to endure and it's painful too.
Peritoneal dialysis on the contrary is something where it happens generally speaking during
the nighttime.
The individual has a tube which is in the abdominal area sticking out and capped off,
closed off to prevent any leakage or infection.
And then at nighttime usually for eight hours, it doesn't happen at nighttime but when my
son first started it was during his bedtime he'd go to bed maybe around being just a baby
eight o'clock, nine o'clock, on our situation maybe also ten o'clock.
And it would last for eight hours and during that time there would be cycles of a liquid
which is well it comes in I think three different categories of filtration, what's the best
way to describe it, the levels of intensity so to speak you know that draws the impurities
out of the blood so that liquid is pumped into the abdominal area and sits there for
maybe 30 minutes or so and then it comes back out into a container on the floor or wherever
and when it is pumped out it resembles urine because the fluid itself and sitting there
and drawing impurities from the blood render it similar to what urine looks like, do you
know what I mean?
So there would be several cycles throughout the night you know to equal approximately
eight hours and then the individual or you know in this case Brice the baby we would
hook him up to the machine and then unhook him and that tube that was picked out of his
abdomen we'd tape it to his abdomen as a baby then you would go about living his daily
life in as much of a normal way as possible and so we endured that night after night,
week after week, month after month they asked me if I would like to volunteer and give one
of my kidneys to him I had to go through the course I said yes you know with a no brainer
being a father and I went through the process of getting tested for compatibility the blood
type my blood type is no positive so it's a universal donor and that was a match therefore
but the tissue type also had to go through the week approval so to speak and it was indeed
a match so the plan was put into effect to have the transplant and this was like around
September of 1994 it was born May of 1994 and the transplant surgery was scheduled for the 29th
of March 1995 however there had to be some certain specifications that he had to reach in order to
be eligible for transplantation one was the of the proper weight the minimum weight supposedly
was 18 pounds and that was the problem because rice used to throw up a lot not having proper
filtration of his body because of lack of kidneys the parents know Dallas this was a substitute
for that and so therefore it wasn't like having normal kidneys and he would throw up during the
daytime throw up at nighttime and we had to change it clothing and sometimes he would the tubing for
the dialysis machine would become kinked and alarmously go off at all times during the night and we'd have
to get up we'd take turns of getting up and usually changing the bed clothing but also he had to
get to 18 pounds and it was a slow run to get to that minimum requirement and come day of the
surgery in the 29th of March 1995 he just barely achieved 18 pounds a week with all the throwing up
we had to have a tube put through his nose to pump high calorie formula into his body to try to
flatten him up so to speak and it wasn't easy for him and at night he would pull that tube out and
that formula keep on pumping again that would soil his bed clothing would have to you know
constantly be changing his sheets and blankets and clothes that he wore as the janice bed and
the alarm is going off the dialysis machine and the machine that pumped the high calorie formula
into him and then when he pulled it out of his nose and we had to put it back in and you ever try to
have a so to put down your nose all the way into your stomach it was painful for him and us too but
we had to do it so that went on as I mentioned for weeks through the end of 1994 beginning of 1995
and at the time of transplantation as I mentioned he was 18 pounds and 10 months and the minimum for
transplantation was six months actually that's the the bare minimum that they preferred to perform a
surgery to transplant kidney from someone into a baby and indeed I don't know too many other
babies in the world let alone or South City United States let alone the world who were feed to
kidney transplant from an adult at that age and for those that might be questioning where it would
go you raise your hand and look at your fist, that's about the size of a normal adult kidney and
with a baby with him it fit perfectly into its abdominal area because his belly was kind of most
the right word descended and descended in other words swollen from the dialysis and you know trying
to I was trying to force the formula into him so there was plenty of room and they made an
decision right down the middle of the stomach area abdominal area where the kidney would openly wind
up and I remember the day after the transplant I went down to the kidney because I get you up
walking right away you know from me they removed it from my white abdominal area in other words
with my right kidney and I've got a nine inch scar on one side of that area to the other and it
looks like a small there too because it has affected my turning left and right and up and down
and kind of hampered my movement but I've lived through it you know and it is painful but I've
endured it nowadays kidney transplants and this is something I would like you to play and to remember
please is that there's nothing like donating a kidney it's a gift of life my friends and
the second kidney that my son received in 2014 19 years after the kidney I gave him
because kidney sometimes don't last forever was from his best friend's mom in Ohio and that was a
true love gift you know that's a long story I won't go into the details but for me being his father
like that's there it was a no-brainer but for someone else it was a gift of life and I encourage
anyone out there listening to me to donate a kidney to someone in need because it is truly
a gift of life and take a drink I have seen it for myself with my own eyes and be very careful
with your kidneys as you know diabetes and kidney disease is pretty common throughout the United
States and I'll give you a tip something also to remember and please don't forget this take it from
me I know my son wrote a book it's in Amazon it's called Finding Faith Through Dialysis I helped
him write it I helped him edit the book to an orange cover you can learn all about that the one
main thing that will keep you healthy regardless if you want to eat too many sweets in your life
which I discovered doing I mean I don't want to judge you or you have to re-will but know that
if you lose function of your kidneys it will be a nightmare for you it really will and the one way
you can avoid any trouble the diabetes or even heart disease or cancer is drinking your daily
recommended amount of water H2O is a miracle liquid in it what the body needs especially the
kidneys the filtration of water running water through your kidneys keeps them healthy my friends
there's a tip take it or not believe it or not but you have to trust someone who has
experience with this kind of thing and I'm not trying to loop you or make you think something
that isn't true however going back to what I was saying with Bryce I went down to see him the day
after and he was hooked up to machine hooked up to machines and and he was surviving I remember
looking at us he was looking up at me and his body was shaking and they had all these kind
tubes in him and monitoring his vital functions etc and he he was moving and shaking and looking
up and he had that look of a survivor like I'm going to make it to this you know we're going to make
this happen and indeed he lived with my kidney for 19 years and it's hard for a young boy or a
girl to have to fit in with normal society so to speak and indeed he had a rough time and
perhaps he didn't take good care of himself as well as you should have you know maybe
drinking too many soda pumps needing too many gummy bears but I mean the child is a child and
you can't take that stuff away from children that's what they love to eat you know growing up you need
those calories you need that sugar hind and I wouldn't judge anybody I'm not suggesting that
any child give up those lovely treats that we that I had growing up however keep in mind that when
you get older you need to think of your kidneys and their healthy function you so anyway Bryce
was in the hospital for two days and he came home and and it was tough he stopped me
peritoneal dialysis there's no longer any need that's why my friends at the me reiterate this and
emphasize this there is nothing like a real kidney or two to shelter your blood if you have to go on
dialysis it potentially could be a nightmare there's nothing like a real kidney my friend
take good care of the ones you have to leave twink your daily recommend in the loud of water
even though you probably don't want to I have a hard time saying I graded myself and I'm a one
kidney owner of only one kidney you know you're gonna take another drink right now but we've got
water close to me I mean I'll drink other things too I don't drink many sweet liquids I might have
a smoothies once in a while or maybe some fluke juice or maybe a zero alcohol beer is
her percent alcohol beer now and then I hear they have good calories and beer can actually be good
for your digestion my mother at one time was given a prescription or recommendation probably
better put to drink one beer daily to help her with her digestive issues that she had with the
digestive issues she had so anyway Christ then he went through high school all the way all the way
through school all including a high school and in 2014 he went through a second heritineal
dialysis and it's in the book captured pretty well in the book because he couldn't remember
when he was a baby obviously but what he endured the second time was definitely no joke my friends
and so if you're interested you can buy the book and read about it yourself and
and how we would pray to God and and I would be sure this at him at the time we were separated
my ex-wife and I separated in 1995 I was still in the army so I had to go to my next assignment
and she went up to Ohio to live with her family and relatives and took bright weather and that
was probably a good thing because she really is a good mother she took good care of them
excellent care of them and for that he turnedly grateful and he pretty much had a good childhood
not the same as a normal so-called normal in quotation marks child who doesn't have any health
issues you know so castor around to your lucky fortunate blast to have no health issues have a
baby born with no health issues my friends nowadays I've heard with a lot of people that
had had hard issues and other things as I mentioned I was on this cruise to Thomas at the beginning
of the show that he met a woman on the cruise who has a son who went through a liver transplant so
not only kidneys but livers some have heart transplants, bone marrow transplants and other
things as well and like I was saying I still encourage anyone to donate a kidney if you are of the
persuasion to do so you will save someone's life and maybe not in the way that one could think
but think about the transplantation list which is about five years at this time and it was back then
too so we found out that the rights would need to kidney before I volunteered to get one of my
kidneys the list was five years and so it is right now here and if you get on the list there's no
guarantee still you're going to survive because a lot of people do die while waiting for a kidney
transplant reality and there are a lot of people on the transplant list my friends
no a lot of people could have avoided what they're going through right now it's they
drank their daily record amount of amount of water but then again you know me sometimes I might
sound a bit judgmental I'm just trying to help so I would recommend it especially now since the
surgeries are less invasive back then as I said it was opening up one side of the abdominal area
a nine inch scar I have right now but now the surgeries are less invasive maybe two three inches
you know they do it ultra-scompically I believe that's the correct terminology and
a lot of the disabilities I'm experiencing right now besides the painful scar
GERD which is really a no-brainer obviously you know it took years for the nerves to grow back on
that side because they were severed with the incision and also it affects my back my neck
but with the less invasive surgery I think and in my opinion that someone wouldn't experience the
same disabilities I'm experiencing but going back to what I said about the VA Veterans Administration
and trying to get 30 percent disability for the law to the kidney their contention is that it
wasn't elective surgery voluntary I mean that you can classify with bifectomies and cosmetic
breast reductions I respectfully disagree with that because when you're saving someone's life
whether it's a baby or anyone by giving them one of your kidneys it just cannot be classified
as elective because the differences between elective and the emergency surgery even though it's
yet told for a date out in the future it's done to save someone's life so it really can't be
in the same classification and indeed my son being 10 months old at the time if I hadn't donated
one of my kidneys to him and my wife couldn't because she was borderline diabetic herself back then
and as I mentioned that it used to kidney disease in her family then he would die he would have
been on the transplant list and just imagine what we went through as I said earlier night after night
the dialysis machine alarms going off the tube that put in was in through his nose
pumping the high calorie formula the alarms would go up on that and throwing up and crying and us
getting up over and over again throughout the night and that went on for several months
imagine if it had gone on longer waiting for a kidney transplant being on the transplant list
wouldn't have survived I know that might be a question mark there but in my opinion it's a no
brainer because I saw what he was going through and once he got that kidney then his life was restored
he was on the road to recovery then and so thank god I have a lawyer right now that's helping me
and why even try to get 30% disability for the loss of the kidney because
I was in the army in the US military and when you're in the military your body kind of belongs
to the government they tell you to go to war and fight and possibly die we belong to them
you know what I mean and so does every part of your body additionally I had to have it approved by my
first sergeant and commander there at the sixth army in the pursuit of San Francisco and I had
to have it approved all the way up to the surgeon general of the army and if it was elective
voluntary why did I have to have it approved all throughout my chain of command that does not make
sense by receiving 30% disability for the loss of the kidney which was more like an injury
according to a doctor who did an independent medical evaluation on me then it should be
compensated appropriately as an injury and so the fight goes on the VA with all due respect to them
and they've been good to me but I know that they're overworked and underscapped in some places
but I'm going to take a drink. The better administration I've noticed throughout the years again with
all due respect has been very incompetent and inefficient time and time and time again
with their verbiage we had to fight for five years to get me up to 100% disability
but I have PTSD and anxiety related to the kidney donations and sleep apnea related to the kidney
donation. I can't sleep on my side. I have to sleep on my back and that's not a good position
really. I mean I've been able to survive but they say that's one of the worst positions if you
have sleep apnea but I can't sleep on my side because I'm missing a kidney and I have that
people scar and so I stop breathing if I sleep on either side that's just the way it is but like
I said I have a nine inch scar here. If you have a kidney transplant nowadays you might only have
a two or three inch scar and with 30% disability that would increase my overall disability total
and secure my disability with the VA in the future so you know what I mean. You know take another
drink. One thing I wanted to say is that I've seen it in their denials time and time again as I
mentioned they are even denying that the kidney transplant happened while I was on active duty.
You want me to repeat that I'll say it again time and time again in their written denials that
were receiving the mail they say it neither occurred in or was caused by service. Well hello
I was right in the middle of my active duty career in 1995 when we had the kidney transplant
so that's why I mean by incompetence and inattition and there's another thing too on the way up
beginning to 100% and you've had the flight back and forth back and forth back and forth
and when it goes to the board of veterans appeals those are kind of like the big boys
the region underneath them that's my lawyer it said for whatever reason they just don't make a
lot of sense and I know that they're giving out big money to veterans who really aren't it when I
was getting ready to retire they told them they said this is what they said in the
the two-day seminars they had preparing us for retirement this is really truly what they said
they said try to get as much disability from the VA as possible fly everything you can to get as
much and it's up to them whether or not to grant it or deny it so that's what I did
I tried to get as much as I can following the instructions they gave me just like they give
everybody and I know it's hard giving out all that money as you imagine you know the billions that
are paid out to veterans but some of those veterans have gone off to fight in conflicts
some have serious PTSD I saw two VA clinical psychologists who both said that I have
PTSD and anxiety associated with the kidney donation I'm going to take a drink now explain why
first it's the people's car in my opinion that is the source of my disability it's right down there
it hampers my movement it affects my mind and I used to be a pretty
steadily person so to speak I used to take the PT test in the army before the transplant
I got a perfect score on nine consecutive PT tests that's 300 for the push-ups to sit up
from the two-mile run I constantly and consistently ran the two miles under 12 minutes when I was 38
that was when I was in my prime but after the kidney donation and as I mentioned all the
nerves down there in my right abdominal area were like a board it took years for them to grow back
I stopped running I had to walk because you know I've been doing the educating and that's okay
there's no problem no complaints well in the recent past I've done a little bit of running
it's kind of fun to run you know and get my heart exercised my lungs exercised because
having sleep at me it's like a vicious circle you know I wake up sometimes not breathing
and I know it's related to the painful scar on my side because I live with it and no one knows
what it's like unless they've gone through it there are probably very few military just
donated one their kidneys before 2000 I donated one of mine in 1995 which was not exactly one
kidney donation to happen you know I think they started in the 1960s but probably not too many
military after that recently I think it's a pretty common thing for service members to donate kidneys
to family members and indeed I encourage anyone as I said I'll say it again it's a gift of life
if you're brave enough courageous enough to do that gift the one that gift of life
then kudos to you you know and I god bless you the wonderful thing to do me I'm different because
unlike one of the first that donated a kidney and probably I don't know of any younger
child out there who received a kidney donation than my son at age 10 months and I wish the
BA would remember that put themselves in my shoes know what it was like to have a 10 month old son
on the trash plant list if I hadn't volunteered to give him one of my kidneys he would have died
plain and simple so in my opinion I'll say it again kidney donation is not an elective surgery
it's done to face the most life and they need to change the regulations to specify that
it can't be classified with vasectomies and cosmetic breast reductions and whatever else
it's a life-saving procedure and it's an emergency it might be able to be scheduled
going to the future which is a good thing to prepare for that but you just can't say
that it's voluntary because especially with a family member you're saving their life
think about it you're saving their life voluntary no look at the definition of the elective
it's a non-emergency medical procedure that can be held off for an indefinite amount of time
a kidney donation isn't people need kidneys right away so we're still fighting with the VA
and right now the appeal was just denied after a lot of work for my lawyer and his assistant
and it went to the region VA headquarters I'm going to take a drink and like always typical of them
they said again for like the seventh time it didn't happen when I was on active duty but then down
below the very last thing it says favorable binding favorable findings like donated one of
its kidneys to a son so there is a contradiction there in terminology they don't have their stuff
together but then how much can I complain I'm at 100% disability and I get the benefits I'm just
saying that they really want to help veterans maybe that's what they have to do before it's
sent up to the big boys like the board of veterans appeals or when you actually go to a court and
appear before a judge maybe they say just deny maybe they're told this is a nine no matter what
deny deny deny regardless of what the rationale is or the logic but that's not really cool in my
opinion because every time there's a denial I think dang that was a lot of time and effort
money you know going into that appeal and they just ignore it you know it's like well how about
we just send the appeals directly to the board of veterans appeals if you all can't be big boys
like them you know what what good are you you know what good are you doing putting veterans to that
you know through the ringer it's like in their mental well-being you know be in the army I know
the better's administration is similar we're taught to do the right thing do what's right and if you
make a mistake you correct it on the spot period you don't keep making mistakes putting in the
same verbiage in appeals this is a veteran you're talking about someone who serves in the army I'd
give for 22 years and as a contractor for six years and as a civilian for almost 16 years
I'm worthy of dignity and respect not the inefficiency and incompetency that I've received in some cases
but then watch out because they also have the ability to take away this ability so it's kind
of like a corrupt organization in the way it's because if you piss them off so to speak then
next thing you know they can take away some of your disability so it's not cool pulling around
with veterans lives like that which they do and have done for years again I'm very grateful to be
at the disability I have or to have the disability I have right now but I just appeal for them do the
right things and you know it's possible that that it's all about money and the older veterans get
the more of them that die and the less money that the US government will have to pay out it's kind of
a mean thing to say but that might be the reality of the situation
anyway how am I doing all the time it's 42 I think I hear one of the dogs trying to come out so
let me just take a break here for about 10 seconds 15 seconds I'll be right back let me take a drink
first yeah that was our dog Goldie she's an elder dog and dog years she's about 100 years old and
she's a tough dog trying it in there you know and I'm so proud of her because she is American Pitbull
Terrier and we figured she's around maybe 14 years old we've had her since 2013 so she was at least a
year old when we got her and sometime in the past my wife she took dogs to a creek and let them swim
around in the creek right around the net area and one day Goldie the market that
bought Terrier came back and we noticed that she had some kind of like incision marks on her rear
end poacher wound so we thought maybe she got bitten by a nest of cotton mounts so not surprisingly
shortly thereafter this skin began to turn black that's called necrosis and she almost lost her
white rear leg we took her to a hospital dog hospital and they were able to save her leg they
damaged her up they um gave her antibiotics five thousand dollars later which was a lot of money
back then but I'm grateful they saved their life saved that leg you know she recovered and it's been
more or less normal back to normal but now as she's getting older that leg has been getting her
difficulty but you're still hanging in there tough and she just went out to the backyard anyway back
to what I was saying now this is a slow slow process because my lawyer and his assistant you
know they're helping other veterans and there's really not a lot of money helping me we've gotten
some back pay and so they had to they have to dedicate a lot of time and effort to doing these
new appeals you know I know they're kind of exacerbated by the VA too but we have this new appeal we have
to generate and get to the border veterans appeal to actually made a decision on the right donor
and to correct me hold on I'm gonna go and close the door because Goldie just went back in give me a
two seconds well she's drinking water and she's in the way so I'll go back a little bit later and
so in 2020 we submitted the first appeal to the board of veterans appeals for
the right donor to correct me which means 30% for the loss of the kidney in 2023 three years
later after being on the docket for three years I call being on the docket they made a decision
they reopened the case and that's when it went back to the region for further review hold on be
right back so between September of 2023 and present day time we've been going back and forth with the
VA the region the lower echelon so to speak about granting approval with the loss of the kidney
we've got an independent medical opinion a legal brief but they just ignored like they've done in
the past because I think as I mentioned their job is not probably to approve or grant the
or complex appeals yet still it's just pointing to me when they do something inefficiently things
on one line it didn't happen when it was on active duty and then down below
favorable finding sergeant would be donated one of his kidneys to his son the contradiction
the mistakes he's seen them all big time over the years and a veteran does not deserve to have
to go through that so something needs to be fixed because right now it cares there's a little bit of
corruption involved with the better's administration and I feel you know that they can
they're like the mafia or something you know they can they can there's retribution they can
get back at people for doing things you know it seems that way it might be just my imagination but
I've heard about how they can reduce veteran benefits you know and then it costs like $4,000
getting back when you hire a lawyer hopefully I won't have to experience any reduction in
benefits because I'm almost 72 years old so holding you get kind of the safer you are also permanently
and totally disabled 100% so not everyone is we'll see if that helps me or I hope so
there's one just speaking the truth my friends you know what I've been through the heartache the
headache the lawyers too my lawyer and his assistant what they've had to go through
and they're and they're fighting for veterans for their benefits anyway let me see um I was
wondering if I would cut off you're still good you're good okay thank you somebody might have
been trying to face on me and make you who it is no anyway oh yeah my son well here's a prayer
for my son I'll call him back when I get off the show my son everyone is a blessing from heaven
he came down and he had to endure some nightmarish scenarios he had to endure pain and suffering
because he's been a good friend to me throughout the years believe it or not I wouldn't be here
in this station in the life if it wasn't for my son it's a long story but to have gotten to where
I am today to have had a successful career in the army to work as a contractor for six years
over six years and a civilian for almost 16 years I couldn't have done it without having my son
when I sighed you know I used to go visit him the divorce agreement said because we ultimately got
divorced that I could visit him once a month and indeed I did every month religiously and I used
to drive 500 miles only in Alexandria Virginia to Ocarber Ohio to help all the highways and turnpikes
in my little 1995 geometro with a five-speed transmission 23 trips I made from living in
Alexandria Virginia to visit my son in Ohio 500 over 500 miles each way and then when I went to
Cleveland from there I got a special assignment to be closer I used to have to drive 100 miles
each way to visit him sometimes I would come back because the divorce agreement said I could visit
between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. I'd come back tired after a day of running around going to play video games
running around malls playing miniature golf going to a batting cage showing a football around
seeing a movie going shopping and that'd be exhausting I would drive back
late at night and almost fall asleep at the wheel you know thank god I didn't and then I
went on my last duty assignment to Caracas Venezuela and then take a drink
I actually worked at that Venezuelan army port that they invaded recently and captured
Maduro I worked there in military groups for two and a half years and I used to visit brights
not every month because you know I had to get their fare from where I was to Detroit and then
went to car spent a couple nights at a hotel so it was kind of expensive but I think I visited him
two times there was four five six times during that two and a half years and then
I visited him as often as I could up until 2015 when he moved to LA and again living there
and now he works for Warner Brothers and he's got a good job and they're about ready to be taken
over by a caraman. He works in the mailroom but there's parcels and packages to Clint Eastwood's
office and Jennifer Hudson's office I went around with him when I visited last Thanksgiving in a golf
cart and he really stayed busy all day and he gets a lot of steps in and he's doing good after that
second kidney transplant in 2014 he's been taking better care of taking good care of himself
as put it that way and so far there haven't been any complications he's had some maybe about to
his illness here and there but as always pulled out my prayer is that God create or the universe
please bless my son Bryce help him to survive help him to stay healthy keep him safe and well
protect him please watch over and protect him and me too there's no guarantee that I'll live
a long life with this one kidney so far so good you know it's been 31 years since I donated one
by kiddies and let me with one kidney it definitely changes one lifestyle one lifestyle.
For a quick try thank you for the blessing of my son Bryce and everything that we went through it
seems like you know we're here on earth to learn from pain and suffering and indeed we do we learn
and the object is to come out on the other side and just be grateful for what we have and I am
I'll continue to pray for my son and I and I would appreciate it if you were to my friends and
there's a prayer for you may God bless the Creator bless you and help you in any way you
needed those who are listening to my voice thank you for tuning into my show and I won't be back
next week I'm going to the Army birthday ball but the following Saturday you see the days of
six it will be the 20th I'll be back then there'll be a rerun next Saturday the 13th goodbye I love you
take good care bye bye
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