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Jojo's Journey

By skterry
  • Andrexia (Jojo) McBride is born.

  • Jojo is diagnosed with Type I Diabetes.

  • Jojo graduates Elba High School

  • While attending college at UAB, she becomes ill.

  • Jojo is checked into the hospital. She is later diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

  • After being hospitalized for nine months, and paralyzed for seven of those months, Jojo is allowed to go home.

  • Jojo is told that she her kidney is now failing due to complications of Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

  • Jojo beings her first semester at Troy University.

  • Her kidney function falls to 21%, prompting her physicans to put her on the kidney transplant list. She is also placed on the list for a new pancreas.

  • Physicans tell Jojo to come to UAB. She has a possible donor match.

  • Jojo undergos her dual transplant surgery lasting six and a half hours.

  • She is released from the hospital with full function of a new kidney and pancreas. She is now diabetes-free.