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Beverly Bays

LIVING Liver DONOR NEEDED

Looking for a live living donor. Need a transplant to save my life. If interested at all please complete the donor process with John’s Hopkins

My name is Beverly Bays I have Nash which is nonalcoholic hepatitis. I developed liver disease over the years and the past 3 years I have gotten more ill. I am retired as a nurse practitioner and my last job was in a nursing home. My family has been supportive but are not eligible as donors. Also several friends and work friends were not eligible. At this time my option is to find a living donor. I am used to caring for people and loved my work. It is difficult to be the patient. My trans plant surgeon has said I have worked to be strong enough for her to do the surgery. I just need a donor

I got ill with my liver disease about 3 years ago. I retired from my work. I am unable to drive. I basically go out for appointments and my brother drives me I would love to visit with family and friends. Travel and take a vacation. Be able to help people again. Volunteer work. I am at home most of the time have no energy and have fatigue.

It would mean I could feel better again. Do things I can’t do now. Visit family and friends. Work with my flowers and my yard. Do activities I haven’t been able to do like. Walk for exercise. Easy hikes. Primitive rug hooking learn to crochet. Go to classes and workshops.

I am looking for a living liver donor. Hoping to find someone interested in donating who is compatible with me. I am going to John’s Hopkins for my transplant. Please share my information so hopefully a donor can be found. If interested you can confidentially start the donation process. I appreciate your interest in liver donation. Getting a transplant can save my life. It takes a special person to be a live donor and you are that person. Thanks for sharing my information and being interested in helping save a life.

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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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