This is a "Community Striving for Unity" as our slogan goes. What that means is that everyone effected by Kidney Disease coming together to share their views and experiences to help us grow as a community. A lot of patients feel alone when they first discover their kidneys are failing and there is no saving them. Other patients, like myself, didn't get those years of normal health but were sick since very young and always felt ostricized and alone. Here is a place built out of the desire to brings us all together so we no longer have to feel lost and alone! Be it if you or someone you care about is on Dialysis, or just discovered they have Renal Failure, or have had a Kidney transplant! You are all welcome here!

So come and join us in the forums or the FLASH Chatroom and share your story with us! Check out all the links to the left for info and links to resources that will help you not feel so lost!

Also if this is green then I am in the Shout Box that you don't need to register to use:

Our Purpose:

The purpose of this site originally was for support of every renal patient who grew up sick such as I did. As I get older I see a larger base that may benefit from a site with all info relevant to dialysis in one site. I know my site is small; but with not a lot of these sites out there I figure that as long as people visit then it must be something helpful. Please check out the AKC Board and the other links in the side menu!

Can you help?
(2008: 2nd year I am canvassing)

Kidney Shirts NOW AVAILABLE!!

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Can you live on one kidney?

Learn about what Kidney DO here!

Living Green Ribbon Event:

In April of 2007 I got to help promote organ donation awareness in my community by attending one of many Living Green Ribbon events! Here is a pic of me in my city's event!

For more info check my forums or www.giftoflife.on.ca or www.wrh.on.ca.



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:: site updates ::

04/22/2008 - Forums are upgraded now to version 4.5 (Proboards) and we are also working on a special surprise for our Forum Members!!
Also updated the E-Cards from the Bravenet ecards to the AKC hosted ones!

03/25/2008 - Updated my Skype so that it shows my status for anyone who has Skype messenger. Also added Map back on.

03/23/2008 - Added more videos to the Videos page.

02/22/2008 - Updated the nav bar on the forums and added 2 new themes over the last 4 days. Also added a Flash title to my site.

Also did some general maintenance as well as added a banner for the KidneyFun shirts which sells shirts for AKC as well as KidneyFun and Kidney-Friends!

02/10/2008 - Updated Canvassing link as this is my 2nd year canvassing online for the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
Here is the link.

Also added a banner that links to my Shout Box where I used to only have a link in this page's menu. No registration necessary and now the banner turns green when I am in it!

02/03/2008 - Added pictures to my Story.

02/02/2008 - Sorry it has been awhile since the last update but I had a Kidney Transplant Sept 30th 2007 that had Acute Tubular Necrosis and didn't work for the first 7 weeks. My hemoglobin has been terribly low and recovery long so bare with me.

I have done updates but haven't typed them here yet. I updated my Story but this time did a whole summary for those who are new to my site. I also redid the PayPal links for the Kidney Bracelets ("CareWear") on the Awareness Bracelets page.

I also updated my "FlipBook"

I am hoping to add more soon but am busy on getting ready for a TV interview by a UWO Student and busy writing an article for www.bluemarigold.ca.

Also I am planning to attend this year's Canadian Transplant Games on August 4th to 10th 2008 that are in Windsor, Ontario

09/11/2007 - Today is the 6th anniversary of 9-11-2001. Lest we forget.

Also I updated a bit, moved the videos to their own page and put a shout box publically where before it was not listed in the menu. (I was bored).

06/19/2007 - Been working on a new alternative to matchingdonors that will be free but in forum format. This is an idea set forth by a dialysis nurse in Ohio and worked on by the recently passed Bill "Epoman" Halcomb, and Jeff "Sandman" Myers and myself (Angie "Kabo0m" Essery) and am hoping that this gets as warm of a welcome as the only other alternative I know of, LivingDonorsOnline.org. If you have any input on this or ideas, please refer to the AKC forums.

06/13/2007 - Updated my CaringBridge site as requested by a forum member. Thx for the suggestion Karol!

Also updated my Xanga page while I was at it and went off on a bit of a sulking rant. Sorry but sometimes I just can't hold it in anymore...

06/13/2007 - Added many different themes for the Forums and been making many but small changes around my site and forums.

04/22/2007 - Added link for the 2007 Living Green Ribbon Event in the Canadian Province on Ontario..

I will be selling the CareWear Bracelets in the city of Windsor.


03/30/2007 - Added My own Personal Journey FlipBook (not the same as the Gallery as this is just my own pics).

03/08/2007 - Added E-Cards for anyone who is interested.

03/08/2007 - Added a new page with an interesting function. Check out my Frapper Page! and add yourself to it as well!

03/08/2007 - Fixed PayPal donation button on all pages (thx SierraJim for letting me know)! Please email me if problems continue.

02/12/2007 - Cleaned up main menu and moved personal links to Angie's Story and took out the weather button and replaced it with a flash "Sign Your Donor Card" thing.

02/10/2007 - Added PayPal buttons to the CareWear Bracelet page.

02/08/2007 - Added a weather button at the top of the page. Check out where to get your own (for Canada or USA) here: LINK.

01/27/2007 - Help out the Kidney Foundation of Canada by donating through the MARCH DRIVE 2007!

01/08/2007 - "Sandman" helped me with a better nav system that looks exactly like my old html nav menu and changed the code for the email so 1 less JS code and took out the animated JS page name for a static one. Now the page loads without the minor JS error.

01/03/2007 - AKC Boards are back up. Check status here.

01/02/2007 - AKC Board down because ProBoards server 42 that my board is on is down. Check status here.

01/01/2007 - Sandman and I have integrated the Chatroom into the site. Check it out here.

11/27/2006 - Redid the intro on this page.

11/26/2006 - Added banners to links page for easier viewing and removed duplicate links from main page.

11/18/2006 - Added link to my MySpace!

09/25/2006 - Added Polls that you can vote on!

09/25/2006 - Added RSS News Feed to my site! Check the menu for the link!!

09/18/2006 - Added Angie's Health Status link for family and friends to keep up to date on my operations and such as long as they have the Last Name and Password.

09/17/2006 - Added Tollidee to this page upon recommendation of a member of my boards.

09/15/2006 - Added a PayPal Donations link at the request of a member right under the menu on this page.

09/06/2006 - Went through 2 Chatrooms and finally decided to spend $5 on this 3rd one! FlashChat Enjoy!

08/31/2006 - Added a GuestMAP to my site BUT it has a max limit of only 100 .. so please don't spam on it. Thanks!

08/18/2006 - Added my blog to the menu on every page. Even though it is not a huge part of this site, I decided it was part enough to add. Angie's Blog.
08/10/2006 - Site was down from Aug 3rd til about the 9th but the problem was a transfer error that host didn't catch. It is corrected now but incase this happens again I have made a mirror site on another server here.

07/26/2006 - Added a link to DairyDelicious®, the refreshing real 2% milk that is low in phosphorous and low in potassium!!

07/21/2006 - Added counters and chat to the left side bar, and added, with permission from Lori Hartwell, the RSNhope's radio show "Kidney Talk" and updated Angie's Story page.

07/11/2006 - Added Link to IHD Chat to all menus & added link to IHateDialysis.com to this page.

02/17/2006 - Added Dialysis & Transplant City Subscription Code.

02/12/2006 - Moved the site over to a new host (happy to be finally rid of those annoying popups). 
Also redid the Guest Book from scratch on the new host (no more ICQ pager sorry). All old guest book entries from Canadianwebs have been lost and I have failed to find a way to recover them but my original Guest Book (started in 2001) still exists here if interested in reading those posts.

11/16/2005 - Updated my email since the one I was using was blocked by spam blockers everywhere.

11/15/2005 - Updated LINKS page with 3 new links including where you can get those plastic wristbands for both Ontario and USA.

11/14/2005 - Updated INFO page with a list of the top ten myths regarding organ donation.

10/4/2005 - I have updated the type of dialysis I am on in my About Me page and added new pics on that page as well. I also added 2 links to pics showing the types of dialysis on this page. I also added a clock on this page under the menu. Also fixed ICQ pager on the guest book page so it works again.

4/15/2005 - Changed to a NEW board layout. Check it out!

3/15/2005 - Added ESRD Tutorial.

1/27/2005 - Added weather for my city and took out stuff that I moved to info page off this page.

12/04/2004 - Added link to the group I am apart of Dialysis Transplant City


****Now Here! ****
A 1991 article regarding my 1st transplant!
1991 News Article on Angie's Transplant