By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

 (CHICAGO)  Chicagoans have long known Ed Farmer.  The southwest side native and former White Sox pitcher has been broadcasting Sox baseball since 1992, and now calls the games on WLS with Darrin Jackson.   But now Chicagoans are learning about Farmer’s lifelong battle with kidney disease.

Farmer tells The Chicago Tribune that he has polycystic kidney disease and is living with the kidney that his brother Tom donated to him 26 years ago.    Farmer says he once swallowed 56 pills a day, and is now down to just one.   He also told the newspaper he constantly carries with him a backpack filled with pills in case his body rejects the kidney that saved his life.

Ed Farmer says after his mother died of the same ailment when she was 38, he learned at an early age that “life was terminal.”

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