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Saying goodbye to my kidney & hello to finishing nursing school!

On August 13th, 2007, I spent the day in the hospital with my best friend Spencer before he passed away from cancer. It's been almost 9 years since that day, but the impact Spencer's life had on me has not faded in the slightest. In the years of heartbreak following, I made these decisions: 1. Take more pictures with the people you love. 2. Donate your hair 3 times to help girls with cancer get wigs [finished in 2014] 3. Share the love you have for Jesus with others in radical, life changing, and everyday ways. Decision number 3 has become more than just a goal for me, it's become my life motto. This is one of the ways I've prayerfully decided to live that out. About a month ago I asked y'all to pray that I would be able to donate a kidney to my friend Mariela who is in kidney failure and desperately needs a transplant. More specifically, I asked you all for, "prayers that there will not be antibodies that prevent me from donating, and that if there