 Today I'm getting a kidney transplant and my son has given that to me. He's my donor and I first told him about my issue. He said that we're just gonna do this. No hesitation. As a matter of fact, he and my daughter. So I'm very proud of them for doing that. I'm very grateful. I'm just happy I can get my daddy a kidney and he can continue on with his life and I'm just really happy that I can do it for him. My name is Lauren, Michael's sister and Maurice's daughter. I know it's major surgery but I'm getting incredible care. I have a lot of trust and I'm not concerned because I'm a man of faith. God's gonna be with me no matter what. I don't have one thought. He said with people of faith that God has a plan but God's taking care of us and our family in this so we're okay. We're okay. I've never seen this much organized chaos in my life but it's kind of like better than television. There's a lot going on in here. The part where I changed the most probably was the day of surgery because I just wasn't in a good mood. Like everything going on there are lots of people in the operating room at this time time asking me my birthday about five times so I was and my view was 5 30 in the morning so I was not I was not that happy but and then next thing I know I woke up and my dad was had tons of energy. Things are going extremely well you know much better than I expected health wise the doctors telling me that I'm doing very very well I have so much energy I haven't felt like this since I was in my 30s. I am an insider and I felt like I was getting special treatment at one point but then I realized I you know I they treated me extremely well all the nurses the tax the transporters the food service people I got a chance to see them in a different light usually I see things from a security perspective but now I saw it from a patient perspective. I said okay well because I'm an insider maybe I'm getting this kind of great care but what I did as a cop is I observed how they treat other people and other patients I had a chance to observe how other patients were being treated and it was incredible. It's inspirational in the sense that I want to make sure that my team matches up to what we're doing here upstairs. So this is a message that I wrote on just as soon after the surgery a day about a couple hours after the surgery when I was back in the recovery room so it's on my Instagram page and I'll read it now. Today was a good day 33 years ago the doctors told my mother to prepare because my dad would probably live only another three years because of kidney disease but God is good and he's lived another 33 and today my life has changed as I was able to give my dad a kidney to continue living on this beautiful earth. People constantly asked me this must be such a difficult decision for you no I can honestly say it has been the joy of my life I love you Debbie. I'm glad I'm from Maryland they do this lapiscapically because not many hospitals in the US do it through the belly button so it's a little for everybody. A small scar to help my dad out.