My Organ Buddy

05/12/2026

This Kidney Buddy made a new friend at the Stollery recently. Happy to have helped make a Birthday spent doing dialysis a little bit easier. 💜

04/19/2026

Officially 1 year post transplant. Time moves forward but I will never move past what this gift means. Heres to more years and never taking this life for granted 🫘❤️

03/12/2026

Today is World Kidney Day! Chronic Kidney Disease affects 1 in 10 people. Kidney Day is all about raising awareness about Kidney health. This is obviously a day thats close to us because Odin had his 1st Kidney transplant just under 1 year ago.

So today, drink an extra glass of water, share a laugh with a renal dietician, buy your favorite dialysis nurse a coffee, hug a nephrologist, and recognize all the hard work your kidneys do 💪🫘

12/31/2025

This year for new years we as a family are reflecting on our accomplishments and highlights from 2025. Naturally Odins biggest accomplishment this year was receiving his donor kidney and just bursting into development. When I think back to everything he has been through and still whats yet to come for this little viking I am overwhelmed with pride. He blows me away everyday. So as we wrap up 2025 here is a photo dump from transplant in April to today. 2025 will bring more for My Organ Buddy as well as we refocus back into new patterns and maybe even a market or two. Cheers to 2026 and to an incredible year for our family. 🥂✨️

10/07/2025

A little fall sunshine & a whole lot of grateful for how far Odin has come since transplant 🧡🍂🎃

08/14/2025

Sometimes, the biggest victories come from the smallest acts. Tonight, Odin ate an entire handful of pasta orally. He ate it like it was nothing, like he has been doing this forever. Little does he know how incredibly hard I and his team fought for him to be able to do this. How many tears and how much emotion I expelled feeling like I was failing him. It is an impossible thing to go through watching your child refuse to eat. To watch his body struggle with keeping food in and fighting to do what we all sometimes take for granted. Another gift from "Katie the Kidney"
🫘🙌🥹

08/07/2025

This lil' thyroid may be soft and squishy, but it runs a tight ship! 🧶💪

Your thyroid helps regulate your metabolism, energy, and mood by making important hormones like T3 and T4. Basically, it's the boss of your body's engine room.

07/27/2025

🥹 such a wonderful program!!! We bring this with us to every appointment (of which there are MANY) and it helps to be a great distraction for the not so great moments 😣💉🩺

07/22/2025

07/07/2025

Being this cute should be illegal...