She continued, detailing more health struggles over the years,"After suffering a stroke in 2009 because of my poorly controlled hypertension I struggled to get back up on my feet. This is when I first learned that my kidneys didn’t work that well anymore. They had already lost thirty-five percent of their function."
"I never would have replaced my medication by the homeopathic alternatives if I had had an idea how much was at stake for me," she wrote."Thanks to my naivety I had ended up at the point where it was about life or death. At first, I may not have noticed any signs of sickness, but some of the symptoms that I blamed on the medication, like my fatigue, nausea or occasional irritability, were really signs of my kidney disease in its final stage....
"The months after the transplantation were marked by a never-ending up and down. From time to time my body tried to reject the donor kidney as it frequently happens after a transplantation," Turner said of the complex procedure."Every so often this required more hospital admissions. I kept feeling nauseous and dizzy, forgot things, and was scared a lot."