With the stroke of a pen, his wait time moved from late 2021 to early 2018. An additional three years. This was enough to thrust him near to the top of the list. In September of 2024, Norris got his kidney and three days later he was home with a falling creatinine, feeling better than he had in years. A lot of people worked hard to remove race from eGFR equations. It can feel like an abstract policy debate. But sometimes it looks like this.