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Patrick Worms

Sheila Nesmith-Worms Needs A LIVING Liver DONOR

She does for others first before she does for herself. She needs all of our help.

Their is so much I can say about my wife who is my best friend. She is beautiful on the inside and the outside. She is always willing to do for others before she does for herself. She is a wonderful mother to all of our children.
When we found out that she had liver disease and needed a new liver I was devastated. I couldn’t believe with all the working out she does and how she eats health that this had happened to her. After going to her Dr appointments with her and hearing things I wanted to get test but I had to be well to take care of her when she has her transplant.
One of the many things she loved to do was work out and stay fit. This has limited her to how she can work out.
Our plan when we got together was to grow old together, so please help us keep that plan and help her have the liver transplant that she needs.

She loved being a Zumba instructor and working out. She loves being active, the woman never sits down. It has slowed her down being so tired all the time, but she pushes through it. She goes to work everyday and doesn’t miss a beat. She still works but has had to modify her workouts.
Her appetite had started to decline and she didn’t have the taste for food anymore.

It would mean the world to her. To go back doing the activities that she loved to do and have her stomach to not look as swollen as it does. To go back to eating the things she loves.

All we are asking is to share her story. It would mean so much to Sheila and our family to have the transplant.

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If you are considering being a living donor please use links below to contact Sheila Nesmith-Worms's Transplant Center. Begin by completing the donor questionnaire

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Medical expenses for living organ donors are 100% covered, and inquires from potential donors are 100% confidential! Contact the Transplant Center to learn more about living donation.

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Share the Importance of Living Donation

Liver transplantation has been a successful treatment and standard of care for end-stage liver disease since the early 1980s.

Technical advancements in liver surgery, as well as the liver's tremendous ability to regenerate, have made living donor liver transplantation a life-saving reality.

There are currently 120,000 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the U.S. Of these, 15,000 await liver transplants.

Although more than 6,000 liver transplants were performed last year, over 1,700 patients died while waiting on the list.

Deceased donor livers are allocated to patients based on how sick they are, determined by their MELD score, where sicker patients receive priority.

Living donation offers patients the option of transplant before they get very sick--regardless of MELD score--significantly decreasing the time they wait for a liver.

Living donation not only saves the life of the recipient; it also frees up a liver for a patient on the waiting list who does not have that option.

The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) are numerical, objective scales that allocate available livers to the sickest patients. Patients move up the list as their scores increase.

The first living donor liver transplant took place in 1988. Since then, living donors have continued giving the gift of life and making a difference.

When a recipient has a living donor, the wait time for transplant is shorter and the transplant can be scheduled in advanced when the recipient is in good health and when it is convenient for both the donor and the recipient.

Financial burdens shouldn’t prevent the gift of life. The National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) can offer financial support for living donor travel expenses.

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