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Brenda McLeod
LIVING Kidney DONOR NEEDED
There are a lot of things you can not do because of diabetes. I have to watch what I eat every single meal, check my blood sugar level once in the morning and my diabetes twice a day. I have to take to take insulin twice a day, which I don’t like doing. When I don’t take my insulin, my blood sugar gets very low and makes me feel unwell until I eat more food to raise it.
I do not have dialysis, but I have to go to the doctor much more regularly to monitor my health.
I really need a kidney transplant to avoid having to go on dialysis. Dialysis would require me to travel to the hospital multiple times a week, which would be a big change in my life. I also have small veins, which would complicate the process and add unnecessary pain that could be prevented if I had a live donor. Just simply making the call to the transplant center is a big step forward in the process of finding me a donor.
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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
There are currently 120,000 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the U.S. Of these, 100,000 await kidney transplants.
The median wait time for a kidney transplant is 3-5 years and can vary depending on health, compatibility, and where you live.
In 2014, 17,107 kidney transplants took place in the U.S. Of these, 11,570 came from deceased donors and 5,537 came from living donors.
Every 14 minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant waitlist.
A kidney from a living donor lasts longer and begins functioning more quickly than a kidney from a deceased donor.
In 1995, kidney donation became minimally invasive with a procedure called laparoscopic nephrectomy, which only requires four small incisions. Hospital stay is typically only 3 days after this operation.
Not blood type compatible with your recipient to be a living donor? Kidney Paired Donation (the “kidney swap” program) enables incompatible candidates with a living donor to receive a kidney from a compatible donor.
Last year, over 700 living donor kidney transplants occurred using Kidney Paired Donation.