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Rebecca Myers

LIVING Liver DONOR NEEDED

Become a part of my live donated liver transplant journey! Help spread the word! Be part of me regaining my quality of life!

I am Becky Myers. And I need a new liver or piece of one. I’ve been in liver failure for a few months. I’m disabled now, but I was an active participant in any community I lived in both where I live now in Maryland and before, in NC. I volunteered for local food pantries and soup kitchens. I am an active member of my church, serving on Altar Guild and Cemetery Committee, studying in Education for Ministry, helping with Family Dinners, and going to Bible Study. We serve the community’s hungry, homeless, low income elderly, and more.
I also enjoy volunteering at the animal shelter and for animal rescues and sanctuaries.

I’ve been diagnosed with autoimmune liver diseases for eight years now. I’ve been in liver failure for a few months. I’ve intermittently spent a week here and there in the hospital til I am well enough to go home to my furries and my friends and family. Now, I’ve been hospitalized for 25 days and counting.
I miss walking trails with my dog. Before I was ill, we hiked mountain trails galore. I also worked passionately as a veterinary technician. I’d like to be at the front desk of a clinic now, meeting customers and furry patients, helping them through a trauma or with bereavement.

Transplant would mean regaining my quality of life! It would mean hiking into a horizon sunset with my dog Bowie at my side. I played ultimate frisbee since college til 10 years ago. I would love to pick up a disc again and throw a little, play a little, teach youth the game. It would be amazing to eat without anti nausea meds on board or to the rescue after the fact.

Please consider being a live liver donor for me! Or you could match someone else registered on the list, and that person has a donor that matches me. You don’t have to necessarily match me to be the reason I get a live liver donor match. Just try! And share this story far and wide, to find that soul with the gift of live donation waiting inside them!! You can be part of my journey. Share my plea and my call!

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

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St, Baltimore, MD, 21287

(410) 614-2989 Email Transplant Center

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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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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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LIVING Liver DONOR NEEDED

Become a part of my live donated liver transplant journey! Help spread the word! Be part of me regaining my quality of life!

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