The new season of True Life aired last night on MTV. New episodes of this show haven’t been on for a while, so I was pretty excited to see it come back on. For those who don’t know what True Life is it is a show that follows individuals who are going through something in their life. This episode was about two young people who needed transplants, unless there was a possibility that they would die. The young girl who was about 22 or so had chronic kidney disease since she was four. She had her dad’s kidney but she failed to take her medication while at college and it ended up failing her. During this episode we got to see her go through another kidney transplant that her mom gave her. It was really hard to watch because she blames herself for this happening to her family, which is not the case. She was just born with this disease, because she wouldn’t want it if she had the choice.
The next individual we met was Craig he was about 25 and a couple years ago he woke up in the middle of the night with chest pains. He goes to the doctor and when they do the blood test it comes back with Leukemia. After the chemotherapy they tell him he needs a bone marrow transplant unless he could die. This is a very high risk surgery because there is 50- 50 percent chance he won’t even make it out of the surgery alive. He got the bone morrow from his brother and it went well. He is now in his recovery stage. This was just a very sad episode, we don’t realize how lucky and how easy we have it, there are people out there who go through this every day.
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