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Lyndon Caviness

LIVING Liver DONOR NEEDED

My name is Lyndon Scott Caviness and I have liver failure. I worked as a Senior Police Officer and loved my job serving others. I have battled with multiple medical issues over the years which has forces me to retire from a job I loved. About 3 years ago my life changed as I found out I had liver failure.

The liver failure has really caused lots of symptoms due to the liver not learning toxins from my body. My symptoms range from being lethargic, severe swelling of my feet, legs and belly. I will have terrible hepatic encephalopathy which causes great confusion, slurred speech, unstable coordination and falling. I have been hospitalized 3 times with encephalopathy once so severe that I had to be intubated due to being non-responsive. Having a living liver transplant would mean so much to my quality of life.

A transplant would mean a better quality. One free from the complications and symptoms that go along with liver disease. It would mean I could start participating in hobbies I enjoy again such as cooking, gardening, and volunteering with Mobile Meals on Wheels. Just being able to live each day with a liver that works and being free from the terrible symptoms.

I am taking a leap of faith and putting my story out there because I am in need of someone to donate part of their liver to me. Your liver has the awesome ability to regenerate. A healthy donor's liver will regrow in a few weeks. I would be able to regain my energy, drive a car again and take my wife to the beach. Spending time with friends will also be a great benefit as well.Please I am asking that if you find it in your heart to see if you would be a matchI would be grateful. If that is not your calling please share my story near and far in hopes someone will see it and be tested. Thanks for taking the time to read my story.

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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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