One step forward???

When I was first diagnosed with diabetes some years ago, I recognised that it would eventually impact my life; but I didn't know how much. I was warned that, to control my disease I would have to carefully control my diet, but that, with it being a progressive disease, other measures would have to be taken. After a while I had to add some medication to my diet control, but I always felt that I was in charge! However, and inevitably I also had to enter into a programme of checking all the various functions that could be affected. I had checks for my eyesight, the quality of the circulation in my limbs, and, perhaps most significantly my kidney function. Over the years my kidneys gradually deteriorated, until a year ago I was advised that I would have to prepare for a transplant in the next year or two. I accepted this bombshell, and resigned myself to a wait for a suitable donor, and possibly having to start dialysis if the organs finally became critical. Then some light at the end of the tunnel - I could see the possibility of a transplant before the need to commit to the drudgery of dialysis. I became very positive that my life would improve hugely and that I would be able to live normally.
Things began to move swiftly forward - or so I thought!. BUT as you now know my preparations for the transplant revealed a serious heart problem requiring urgent surgery. It just seemed that, as I thought I was moving forward, I suffered a blow which dragged me back.
However I have had such positive responses, that I feel confident that I will have a good outcome from my surgery. AND, at a meeting today with my renal consultant I learned that there is a very good chance that I won't have to go into permanent dialysis following the surgery. So there really is still light at the end of the tunnel.