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Dan was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2018, and has been doing well on dialysis 3x/week but ultimately needs a kidney transplant.
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The need for a kidney donor
Hello Facebook community,
Some of you know that at the end of 2018, at age 35, I was hospitalized with chronic kidney disease. With a lot of support from family, friends, coworkers, and the doctors and nurses at Rochester Regional Health , I’ve been able to return to my new normal lifestyle. I’ve been working full time; I’m playing sports again; and my day to day life has returned to a schedule that now includes dialysis treatments three afternoons a week.
In addition to the maintenance dialysis treatment that I get from the RRH clinic, I have been working with a transplant team at Strong Memorial Hospital to get listed on a transplant list. A transplant is the only long-term “cure” for my current condition. A transplant will help me not depend on dialysis treatments, and will give me more freedom with work, travel and return to a truly normal lifestyle. Unfortunately, the current transplant list in the Rochester area is around a 5 year wait list for a viable kidney from deceased donors. My only other option for a transplant is from a living donor. Living donors are people who volunteer to donate one of their healthy kidneys to a patient like me who needs one.
If after reading this, you’re interested in learning more about living donation, please message here directly with follow up questions or for more information about contacting the transplant unit at Strong. There are a lot of details around donor qualifications and the process that the transplant team at Strong can answer.
