(light music)
(water rushing)
-: I think a man's supposed to provide for his family.
A man don't work, man don't eat.
I love to fish, just being on the water,
there's nothing like it to me.
I was at work one day, and I got ready to get up,
and I like, stumbled.
I got up, and I fell again,
so I said, I better go to the hospital.
That's when it all started with my kidneys.
Cherie: You hear chronic kidney disease,
and you kind of and you automatically think dialysis.
Dialysis has a time limit.
It's not something that's meant to be forever.
The option is a transplant or dialysis.
-: Scared, didn't know what to expect, needles.
I just, I didn't want to do it.
I think I was worried about my job,
not being at work, not being a provider.
I didn't know what to expect.
-: I receive my members through the dashboard.
These are assigned to be by predictive models
looking for clinical risk factors.
In James's case, our analytics picked up
the diagnosis for end stage renal disease.
James: They brought all the equipment into the house.
I was at work.
-: He picked up the phone and he goes,
"I have to start dialysis."
And I was like, what?
My clinical training led me to suspect that his
new medication possibly played a role in the decline.
I recommended to James that there was a different lab test
that could be ordered that would give a clearer picture
of his kidney function, and so when he had the
second lab test drawn, it truly reflected
what his kidney function was doing,
which was still holding strong and steady.
-: She saved me, actually, from going on dialysis.
Cherie: And so, you're working towards trying to
secure a transplant, trying to find a donor,
as the clock is ticking down.
-: And shortly right there when Rachel called me,
told me that she was a match.
Everything went great, Rachel was great,
it was just a awesome feeling.
I was sick, I was very sick, so if it weren't Cherie,
probably would have been in the hospital, or not here.
I like that she cares, you know,
she shows me that she cares.
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Everyday is a sunny day for me.
When I'm on the water, and the sun coming up,
and I got a second chance at life,
I say thank you, and I just appreciate it.
It's just, beautiful.