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Christine Donohue

Ryan Donohue Needs A LIVING Liver DONOR

Please be Ryan’s Angel and share this or even see if you qualify to be his living donor ❤️

We are still in need of a donor !
Ryan Donohue is my Son .
His life since he was 17 hasn’t been a easy one . Started with colitis… so they ended up removing his Large Intestine and had a colostomy bag for about 3 months. Then he started feeling ill again and found out he had Crohn’s disease and that infected his small intestine. Meds and infusions …..
With all that his liver numbers started rising and was told his bile ducts of his liver were becoming plugged . He had a stint put in to make the bile duct drain. And that gave him pancreatitis… very painful!
That also only worked for a bit…
His disease has made him very sick but he always has a smile on his face and never gets down.
He is jaundice at this point and has been for quite some time.
He has a beautiful wife and 4 children that keep him going.
Now his numbers have become so bad that now he is on a Living Donor List.

He can’t keep weight on and his eating habits had to change because of his digestive system.
He has to be very careful around people because of his disease…
He gets tired often .. and really doesn’t sleep well at night .

A life that he hasn’t had since he was 17 !
Freedom to go places with no worries of where a bathroom is and eat whatever he feels like

Please if you can help my Son in anyway like sharing this or even calling to see if you can be his angel and be his living donor would be greatly appreciated
This has reached so many people …but we need for you to keep sharing and finding that one angel .
Please share ❤️🙏

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

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Yale New Haven Transplantation Center

333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520

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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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Liver DONOR NEEDED

"Receiving a transplant would allow me to be there for all of life's big moments. With four kids, I have plenty of those to look forward to."

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