“They’re so innocent—they just smile,” says Araos, adding: “They don’t know the difference between living healthily and not healthily.”
It’s a painful distinction that Araos, 45, knows only too well. She lost both her kidneys six years ago and has been on dialysis ever since. “We are 112,000 people nationally waiting for a kidney transplant and we die 18 a day—babies and adults,” she says, adding ungrammatically: “In a lot of people, we don’t make it.”
What a Difference a Day Makes
Araos, who works as a community educator about organ donations and transplants, has lived on Fair Park Avenue, near the corner of Eagle Rock Boulevard, for the past 15 years. For her, every day is a blessing that brings her closer to the time when she can expect to receive a donated kidney.
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