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Hang in there

When Adam first told me that he had kidney disease we hadn’t been dating long. But long enough that we were in the phase of the relationship where I was constantly acting out in ways that should probably have warned him off. It was a time of much boundary-pushing, crying in restaurants, soft ultimatums, and…

Fraught & Staunch

Fraught & Staunch is a fictional BBC mystery series that lives in the mind of Adam Chase and Jennifer Kohnhorst. It’s principal characters are Reginald Fraught and Trulee Staunch, a married couple who are not detectives but nonetheless solve crimes on a weekly basis. Fraught is brilliant but forever worrisome; his trepidation is balanced by…

We made a Caring Bridge site

TLDR: Find us on Caring Bridge, please.(Read on for musing on how the pandemic prepared us for the imminent fun of organ transplantation.) When Adam’s kidney numbers took a nose dive we had already been self-isolating for four months, just like most people. One of the features of a kidney transplant is compromised immunity: Adam…