Two years ago at this time, she was recovering from a heart attack.
A year ago, she had just received a new kidney.
Her son Jermaine kiddingly asked what trick she had up her sleeve this year to get out of making some of her favorite dishes for the holiday.
But if everything goes as planned, she’ll be making her dressing, candied yams and sweet potato pie for Thursday’s big meal.
“I just feel like I want to celebrate life,” says the 61-year-old Cline, who goes by the nickname “Peepcie.” “It’s the grace of God who has kept me here.”
On another end of Rowan County, David Zalinsky also is thankful for a life that’s completely different this year because of a kidney he received Sept. 12. Before his transplant, disease had taken both of his kidneys and tethered him for almost three years to a dialysis machine.
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