Activist Lynda Kitchikeesic faces uncertain future after emergency surgery

“Please pray for me. I am going through a lot right now. Tonight I am frightened.”
Lynda Kitchikeesic’s Facebook post last Saturday presaged the emergency medical surgery that the Ottawa activist and volunteer underwent on Wednesday when, near death with her kidney function at just four per cent, a dialysis line was inserted directly into her heart via her neck.
“I have had no intention of doing dialysis and went away to Florida cheerfully prepared to die,” she wrot