My kidney is doing well, now my aunt Bonnie needs a kidney donor!

My aunt Bonnie is on dialysis and needs to find a kidney donor, type A or O (the + and - don't matter in organ transplants.) If you're interesting in learning more about living donation or want to get tested as a possible donor, please contact us at kidney4bonnie@gmail.com - thank you!
Somewhere out there, there's a kidney with Bonnie's name on it!

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TIME TO CELEBRATE!!

Finally! A kidney for Jenna - July 26, 2017 - thanks to Gary, who donated his kidney in a swap so Jenna could get one from an amazing stranger through the National Kidney Registry! www.kidneyregistry.org
Thanks also to UCLA Medical Center's fabulous transplant team, surgeon and nurses!

Her kidney is settling in!
(art by rebecca rees)

Visit Jenna's Facebook page "Wanted Kidney Donor"

Karol Franks ‏@okarol  May 24Pasadena, CA

Daughter Jenna is 30 yrs old & has been waiting 4 yrs for a #kidney transplant. To get tested as a possible donor please contact us at kidney4jenna@gmail.com

Thank you!

My name is Jenna Franks. I am 29 years young and have been on dialysis over 2 years now. My blood type is Type O, and I NEED A KIDNEY DONOR. I can receive types O+ and O-. I am searching for my living donor match. I was diagnosed with kidney failure at age 15, caused by a rare bladder defect. Family and friends have tried, but so far there has been no match. I would like to be healthy, strong and independent, and this is difficult with 12 hours of dialysis per day. I am grateful it keeps me alive, but there is so much more I would love to be doing. I don’t want to miss one more minute of living! I have been on the transplant waiting list since August 2012. I was a senior in high school when I started dialysis the first time, and after 3 years, I was given a kidney transplant which lasted nearly 7 years. Two years ago, my kidney fully rejected, and I am back on dialysis. I have very high antibodies and am difficult to match. If you are willing to be tested as my match, please contact UCLA at 1-866-672-5333 or email us at kidney4jenna@gmail.com for a LIVING DONOR INTAKE FORM. Tell them the person you would like to be tested as a match for is Jenna Franks, born 11-21-85. THANK YOU for your help!
From Jenna’s mom, Karol: Please consider getting tested for Jenna. I have a heart valve problem which keeps me from donating, which just kills me. I wish I could make life easier for her. She is very courageous and never complains, but life on dialysis is not easy. Jenna loves drawing with her computer tablet, going to the farmer's market and has said she would love to travel to visit friends, practice driving more and get a job, so she could be out on her own. She's often tired from anemia and it's hard to focus, so she looks forward to having more energy and stamina. If you would like to reach out to Jenna personally or follow her Facebook Kidney Donor search page for updates, please click here:https://www.facebook.com/wantedkidneydonor Please share this post!!! You never know where her miracle will come from!

Jenna is 29 years old and on dialysis. Please contact us if you're willing to get tested as a kidney donor: kidney4jenna@gmail.com

You can also help by sharing her info! LET'S DO THIS!

Image used with permission from mom of "Success Kid" Laney Griner (thank you!)

Relying on the kindness of strangers

How many health conditions rely on the kindness of strangers for help?
This is our daughter Jenna. She needs a type O kidney donor.
Please share. Thank you!

Jenna is on daily dialysis, needs a kidney donor!

If you're interested in being tested as a kidney donor for Jenna, please complete a form here: Living Donor Kidney Transplant Team at UCLA http://goo.gl/OEM2rP 
She needs a Type O donor, patient: Jenna Franks, born 11-21-85 -- thank you!

Living donors make miracles happen!!

Thank you to the over 133,000 living donors (since record keeping began in 1988) who gave of themselves to save another.

facebook.com/wantedkidneydonor

If we help spread the word about the option of living kidney donation, we can help patients with chronic kidney disease live a longer, better life.

URL: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/living-donors-can-save-lives-greatest-potential-combat-organ-shortage-94293/ 

If you need a kidney or knows someone who does, you need the National Kidney Registry. Contact a transplant center:http://www.kidneytransplantcenters.org/
Our daughter Jenna needs a donor - please email us at kidney4jenna@yahoo.com

Over 100,000 people need a kidney transplant. 
Jenna is one of those who waits.
Source: Organ Procurement and Transplant Network http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/

Please share - www.facebook.com/wantedkidneydonor

There are not enough kidneys to go around

Demand for kidney transplants is considerably higher than for any other organ. At the start of 2014, nearly 100,000 people in the United States were on the waiting list to have a kidney transplant. In recent years, only about 11,000 deceased-donor kidney transplants were performed annually in the United States. Each year another approximately 5,800 kidney transplants were made possible by living donors.

Organ donors make miracles happen!

Recycle yourself, become an organ donor.

Register here: http://donatelife.net/register-now

www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor

Committee decided who should live on dialysis. 1965 documentary

A quote from the 1965 NBC documentary entitled "Who Shall Live?" narrated by Edwin Newman. In those early days of dialysis technology, only a few patients could be treated, and even then at great cost. The demand greatly exceeded the capacity to treat patients, and some means of selection was needed. The highly controversial decision-making process had anonymous committee members deliberating over the merits of each case. 

The documentary examined the troubling questions underlying decisions by the committee. 

Should patients with children get priority? 

Those who went to church? 

Those who had the most productive jobs?
Here's the video of the documentary on YouTubehttp://youtu.be/FMay5zw1loA

Are you her type? Kidney donor needed, type O. Watch the video!

Watch Jenna's video - she needs a kidney from a living donor - type o, positive or negative - both will work. Thank you for helping to share her story. We are in So. Calif. and she's starting dialysis. Please help. Thank you.

Please read Jenna's story and share it - she needs a kidney donor, type O (+ or - is ok) http://www.livingkidneydonorsearch.com/our-stories2/jenna-franks2/

Thank you!

The wait list for organ transplants grows daily.

Jenna is one of the over 100,000 Americans waiting for an organ transplant. Living donors make the difference between life and death for patients who could wait years for a transplant. Please visit Jenna's facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor Thank you!

Save a life

Butterflies represent rebirth.
It's quite a life-changing experience when someone who has been sick receives the gift of life.
Celebrate Life: Be a Hero. Be an Organ Donor. Save a Life.

Just think about it.- A deceased donor can give kidneys, pancreas, liver, lungs, heart, intestinal organs, plus tissue and corneas- A living donor can give a kidney, or a portion of the liver, lung, intestine, or pancreas

One of the main jobs of the kidneys is to filter the waste out of the blood. The average person has 1 to 1½ gallons of blood circulating through their body. The kidneys filter that blood as many as 400 times a day! More than 1 million tiny filters inside the kidneys remove the waste.