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This Man Spent Years Waiting for the Phone Call That Would Change Everything. One Day It Finally Came.

An intimate look at life on the kidney waiting list.

Faith Bernstein
Feb 21, 2017
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Tim McCabe suffers from a string of rare autoimmune diseases that have completely shut down his kidney function. He survives on dialysis, his body becoming weaker by the day. But he fights on, and with the support of his family, gathers hope that one day he will get the phone call that will help him defy the odds.

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