- The results came back from my doctor

and he said, your kidneysare functioning at 7%.

He has told me if Ididn't get a transplant,

I would probably die.

- [Narrator] Jerry Graver has been active

and healthy for most of his life.

But in late 2013, he startedhaving some concerning

health issues, includinga swollen abdomen.

His wife, Cheryl remembers their onset.

- It kept getting worse,he was getting tired.

Then he was getting nauseated quite a bit.

And then he started vomitingand he just was very weak

and it just really wouldn't stop.

He couldn't eat.

So I'm like, we need to calla doctor and get you in.

- [Narrator] While awaitingthe results of a blood test,

Jerry endured intense painand near constant vomiting.

A call from their doctor,

alerted them to howserious his condition was.

- He said you need toget Jerry to hospital,

as soon as possible.

He's in big danger.

And we'd got the hospital,

they took him to emergency room right away

and they said his kidneys were failing.

And it was just a whirlwind.

Things just started happening so fast

and he has to have dialysis.

And our brains were just spinning.

Like what, how could this happen?

- [Narrator] Jerry'sprostate had swollen shut,

blocking in backup into hiskidneys, causing them to fail.

He was immediately put on dialysis

and soon realized howdifficult his life would be.

- When I had my chestport, you get lightheaded,

you get dizzy.

Someone has to drive you home

and it takes a day to get over it.

And then when I starteddoing home dialysis

with a port in my abdomen,

you supposed to be ableto sleep through it

and change your fluid out in the morning.

Is so painful, you justdon't sleep, it hurt.

- He would have this machine in his room

and it was noisy at night.

And he would just get upin the middle of the night

and he'd just be bentover in excruciating pain.

And I would just be crying.

I just had to go to anotherroom and pray for him.

- You know, you didn'twant to live like this.

And I was getting just really discouraged.

And I broke down several times.

If I just didn't know what to do,

I just couldn't believe it was happening.

- [Narrator] He beganresearching transplant options

and became even more discouraged.

- The success rate on transplantswith somewhere around 60%.

And there's a lot of guysthat get them and they fail

and they have to do it again.

And you have to take anti-rejection drugs.

So he can't be out in the sunlight.

And there's just so many.

That's just that youwouldn't have a normal life.

It's really hard to hide.

I was at a loss as to what to do.

All of a sudden my normal life has gone.

It's hard.

- [Narrator] As Jerryprayed for an answer,

he remembered a storyfrom the book of Daniel,

where God's servantsrefused the King's food

and only ate rawvegetables and drank water.

- All of a sudden they kept going over

and over and over in my mind,

I think I gave it to me,

vegetables to eat and water to drink.

I said, surely it couldn't be that simple.

So I told my doctors,

I'm going to go on avegetables and water diet.

And they said, oh, that's ridiculous.

You won't get your protein.

It has no bearing on you whatsoever.

I said, okay, but I'm going to do it.

- I was nervous, cause I'm like, well,

you need to follow whatthe doctors say, you know?

I mean, they gave us tons of brochures

and literature on here'sthe things you should eat.

Here's the things youshouldn't eat for kidneys.

And so I was nervous.

Like, are you sure thisis the right thing to do?

Because like, He kind of always think

you should listen todoctors and what they know.

But then he was just at him about

listening to God and his word.

- [Narrator] For 100days, Jerry drastically

changed his diet.

- I started on thevegetables and water diet,

all raw, all organic and water.

Nothing else, no bread, no meat,

no cheese, nothing.

And slowly, my numbersstarted getting better.

He said, well, a little bitof improvement this week.

I said, okay.

So I stayed on it and it keptgetting better and better.

It wasn't fast, but itwas better and better.

Every time I went, I mean, itwas just a mundane routine.

Try not think about itbecause I kept getting better

and better and better and better.

I was trying to reach a goal.

- How he could do somethingand be so disciplined

for a hundred days todo something like that.

But he just felt likehis life was at stake

and that's what he hadto do to get better.

- It took a hundred daysfor me to get there,

but it didn't have a hundred days.

I had normal function andthey wouldn't accept it.

And even the nurse even told me,

said, I think we musthave misdiagnosed you.

- [Narrator] Jerry andCheryl know that it was God

who gave him the path to healing

and the strength to walk it out.

- It's easy to say, Jesus is all you need,

but it's different whenJesus is all that you got.

He gave me a second chance.

And looking back, it'ssuch a simple thing.

It just takes discipline.

I kept telling myselfI'm on a deserted island.

And all I got is vegetablesand water to eat.

So you survive until someone rescues you.

- [Narrator] After the 100 day diet

inspired by the book of Daniel,

Jerry was successfullyremoved from dialysis.

His kidney function has been normal

for more than seven years.

- So the first thinghe said he wanted to do

is go to burger king and get a Whopper.

And I'm like, I'm notsure that's a good idea,

you might get sick.

But he did and that's okay.

But he got right back

onto his fruits and vegetables after that.

- You don't know howwonderful status quo is

till you don't have.

Now I got status quo.

- We're so, so thankful tothe Lord for what he did

and how he blessed us andjust gave him a new life.

And his life back.

- I mean, just looking back,I just can't believe it.

It was such a journey.

I said, you just grappledin six words, you know,

vegetables, deep water drink.

And I went from facing disasterto a normal life again.