"While I was growing up, my father always told me, 'Nancy, you can do anything if you want it badly enough,'" says Nancy Spaeth, RN, member of the Life Options Rehabilitation Advisory Council.

Four kidney transplants, two children, and two post-secondary degrees later, those words still ring true for Spaeth, who has had kidney failure since 1959. The longest surviving patient of the Northwest Kidney Centers' program – the first out-of-hospital dialysis center in the world – Nancy is living proof that it is possible to live long and live well with kidney failure.

How? That's what you'll start to learn in this module.