David Bothfeld of Hyde Park, VT needs a kidney

02/19/2023

We’re about to open greenhouses for this season. The work is heavy and hard, as usual, but it takes a bigger toll having to do it half time to leave the other half day to dialysis. We learned this week that David is finally physically ready for a transplant. What a gift of God that would be to have a normal life back again To pursue working.
Could there be a miracle out there for him?
We pray every day

02/15/2023

Another long day of appointments tomorrow for transplant. Ugh! It seems like the hospitals make you prove you don’t need a kidney. Makes no sense to us. However our male Saint Bernard has a unique fix to all of this. He just finds David, lays down beside him and FFFFFFTTTTTTTT…. Seems like the pressure release of a little gas can cure just about anything. That and birdseed covered feet .

02/02/2023

David had two surgeries this past two weeks. It amazes me how bravely he faces and tolerates all if this. When he comes home the Saint Bernard’s are all over him and they INSIST on laying beside him during dialysis to stand guard over him. They are truly our family. Our deepest wish is to find a living donor. It would change his life so much. Giving him back his health, his time and his life. Living donors are gifts from God. Everyone should think about it and with new technology you don’t even have to match. Just be willing to consider donating your spare! Sounds like Prince harry! SPARE!

12/05/2022

12/05/2022

David Bothfeld
(Kidney Donor Wanted)

Healthy and strong until kidney disease was discovered, David Bothfeld continues to work hard, though the challenges of the disease have slowed him down. This amazing man continues to run a greenhouse business with the help of his wife, and even though he is increasingly exhausted, he never rests. But each day is harder.

David has been on dialysis, but it is like running a marathon as he pushes through pain and shortness of breath. It has stressed his heart tremendously and he is generally exhausted, but he has an ungodly will to live.

A truly nice and easy going guy, people (animals, too!) are automatically drawn to David but now he needs your help

If saving the quality and quantity of a life interests you, David is a perfect candidate for you to help. As much as dialysis allows a kidney patient to live, it does only 30% of what a normal kidney would do. A normal life can be restored by getting a donation of a kidney from a living donor and David desperately needs a kidney.

You don't have to match him. Through the "kidney swap" any healthy person can donate a kidney into a "pool" which is matched with other donations in the same pool to achieve the match that person needs. It is illegal to coerce or offer payment for a kidney donation. It must be of your own accord. In order to find out if you can participate, you would contact Cathy Pratt, senior transplant coordinator at Dartmouth Solid Organ Transplant at 1-603-653-3931 or email dhmctransplant@hitchcock.org

Information about becoming a living kidney donor, including requirements and the typical patient journey.

10/30/2022

Dialysis is a truly
Wondrous process and I thank God for it and I
Must add that it is tedious and complicated and discouraging as well. We’re both so tired. If we only had a transplant to look forward to….

08/23/2022

Does saving the quality and quantity of someone's life interest you?
As much as dialysis allows a kidney patient to live, it does only 30% of what a normal kidney would do. A normal life can be restored by
getting a donation of a kidney from a living donor. David desperately needs a kidney. You don't have to match him. Through the "kidney swap" any healthy person can donate a kidney into a "pool" which is matched with other donations in the same pool to achieve the match that person needs. It is illegal to coerce or offer payment for a kidney donation. It must be of your own accord. In order to find out if you can participate, you would contact Cathy Pratt, senior transplant coordinator at Dartmouth Solid Organ Transplant at 1-603-653-3931 or email dhmctransplant@hitchcock.org

Information about becoming a living kidney donor, including requirements and the typical patient journey.