Here’s a YUGE development in organ transplant!
NEW LIVING ORGAN DONATION COLLABORATION ANNOUNCED AT WHITE HOUSE ORGAN SUMMIT
From the National Kidney Foundation website…
“The White House annouced a new collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and Novartis to nationally launch the Live Donor Champion Program. Developed by transplant surgeon Dr. Dorry Segev at Johns Hopkins University, the Live Donor Champion Program aims to overcome common barriers to finding a living kidney donor—a need for more education about living donation; and a reluctance to start a conversation about donation among transplant candidates.”
There are over one hundred thousand patients seeking new kidneys and four thousand died in 2015 while waiting for a new kidney. Only 1 in 5 of those 100k waiting will receive a kidney. Getting living persons to donate a kidney increases the number available for transplant and living kidneys are better for transplant, too!
Read the news release here through the National Kidney Foundation page…
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I am a person with ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) which means my kidneys don't work. Forty or so years ago that would have been a death sentence but today there is Dialysis which means I could be hooked up to a machine that would clean my blood as the kidneys should. Three days a week, I went to a dialysis center and had too very large needles stuck in my arm to remove and replace my blood as it passed through a process where it was cleaned and the fluid was removed, a process taking a little over four hours each time.
In November 2017, I received a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. My life went into overdrive. With a "new" functioning kidney, I no longer had to go to a dialysis center and my days were not open to be lived rather than recovering from dialysis which meant dialyzing for three days and resting for 4 days a week. I work full-time and often 50 hours per week. It is something I never imagined. I highly recommend it! HeeHee
I want to advance knowledge about dialysis and transplant so that others can learn from my experience and mistakes. We shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, eh? There is so much to be learned and experienced about our predicament. There are vast resources available to support us and enrich our lives but many patients don't know about them. There are also many issues that we have to deal with whether we want to or not. So I blog about them in www.DevonTexas.com
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When i was diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, i also learned that my kidney function was in decline. Luck was on my side one Father’s Day when i learned that both organs were available. I received a liver and kidney transplant on the same day through *meetorgandonor123@gmail.com* in a 10-hour surgery.