Falling off a cliff.

Day 1 of The Bad News.

So my daughter was born with crappy kidneys. We've know since day 1 that they had an expiration date. Every few years her kidney function would fall off a cliff and then stabilize. There were four big cliffs: age seven, age eleven, and age fourteen. Now, at age twenty three (twenty four in a few weeks) her kidney function has landed on the canyon floor, just like Wile E Coyote. It made the "poof" sound and everything. See the road runner there? He's holding up a sign in the dust cloud that says, "ESRD." End stage renal disease. End stage. End.

The expiration date is now.

Without immediate medical intervention my daughter is going to die.