How Donald Trump Saved My Life

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“I’ve been to hell and back. I’ve seen the edge. I saw the dark side of life.” Natalie Cole (1950-2015) Kidney transplant recipient

This is the true story of how President Trump saved my life.

In early 2017, I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and its partner in death, End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

In the emergency room, my blood pressure was 242 over 160. It’s a miracle I didn’t have a stroke and die.

I was quickly diagnosed, spent days in the hospital and then began years of dialysis and the excruciating wait for the most difficult gift: a kidney transplant.

On July 10, 2019, President Trump signed his ground-breaking “Advancing American Kidney Health” Executive Order. (Here’s a link to a video from the signing ceremony, complete with kidney/transplant patients like 1-year-old Hudson Nash.)

On Christmas Day, 2019, as I was leaving a Church service, “Joy to the World” rang out as my friend and I left, when my phone rang. It was the medical center’s transplant coordinator saying, “Mr. Robinson, we would like to offer you a kidney.”

In my recent interview with President Trump. I am very happy, of course, to live which is an omnipresent feeling for me these days. The president immediately took it and showed kindness to the whole world.

When my interview with President Trump began, I said, “I want to thank you for saving my life and thousands of others, President Trump.”

He was surprised that the writer he was talking to had kidney disease himself. “Oh! Is that true? Are you someone who did the work?”

“President Trump,” I began emotionally, “I had been on dialysis for over two years when you signed your order and six months later, I got the call as I was walking out of church on Christmas Day, 2019, that there they are a rock for me. I got that stone from a new Hepatitis-C clinical trial program that your order actually started.”

In the most caring way, President Trump asked, “And how did this happen?”

“Oh, this is a new world for me, Mr. President.”

President Trump is the only president who has ever cared (much less done anything) to help the 40 million-plus Americans afflicted with an epidemic-level contagion sweeping America: kidney failure, dialysis, and, often, death.

According to CDC data, “Kidney diseases are a leading cause of death in the United States.”

(Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative)

The data is staggering and it is growing every day, every hour, unstoppable. Today’s 40 million number was 33 million in 2017. At least 120,000 Americans are waiting on a national kidney transplant list with 33 dying each day from kidney failure.

Only .9%, less than 1 in 100 kidney patients survive dialysis.

Of the massive national transplant list for all organs in America, more than 80% are those waiting for a kidney. Clearly, there is a serious problem with American kidneys.

Kidney disease destroys lives and may kill more Americans than cancer or heart disease. However, it is rarely covered as a curse by our media.

I asked Trump, “Why do you help suffering and dying kidney patients like me? Do you have friends or family members with kidney failure?”

“Well, over the years, I’ve met people with this problem, just like your problem and over the years, it seems like something can be done and not done. So, it was something that could be solved and we thought we could do that.

CONTINUED IN PART 2 TO RUN TOMORROW

Bill Robinson has appeared on Fox News, CNN, PBS, Bloomberg, BBC and had his own segment on SKY News. For seven years was the lone Conservative columnist for the unabashedly Liberal Huffington Post. He has written columns and articles for The Wall Street Journal Europe, Forbes.com, Fortune Small Business, The Financial Times, The Moscow Times, United Airline’s Hemispheres Magazine and many others. Bill can be reached at: [email protected]. Read more Bill Robinson Reports — Here.

(This is a story I wrote. We all have our own stories. If you want to share yours with me or want my prayers, I’d love to hear from you. My email is Bill@RelentlessMarketing. com

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