Jun 29, 2021 Former owner-operator Eddie Spearmon of Fayetteville, North Carolina, awaits a kidney transplant. He's shown here in a picture from the early part of this century provided by his daughter, Shakirah Spearmon. What's in Eddie Spearmon's future? The former owner-operator turns 57 in early August, for one. If everything goes according to plan, he'll also soon be the recipient of a kidney transplant and begin recovery and a hoped-for return to the road, he told me this morning. After nearly six years away from OTR, he said, "It’s in my heart, and I just want to get out there." Spearmon, who's based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure in 2015. His daughter Shakirah Spearmon said this has led to dialysis treatments that now occur in six-hour sessions three times a week. "If he doesn’t go to the dialysis clinic, he gets really sick," she said. Her father's predicament has been compounded by repeated surgeries to remove his kidneys after possibly cancerous masses were located on each of them.