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White Sox announcer Ed Farmer doesn't let kidney disease slow him down

Ed Farmer's backpack is filled with pills — just in case.

There was a time when Farmer swallowed 56 per day — and he can name every one.

"I had to," Farmer said. "My life depended on it."

The White Sox's radio play-by-play man has polycystic kidney disease and has been living with his brother's kidney inside him for 26 years. These days he is down to one medicine — cyclosporine —which he takes every night at 10.

He carries the backpack when he travels, in case his body rejects the kidney that saved his life.