#kidney donor needed

[demeter1111]

For the last day of National Donate Life Month in the USA, I am posting the links to all of the donate life posts I have made this month. If you are interested in learning more please see the links below. Organ donation saves lives. If interested in learning more and you are in the United States you can visit the link in the above graphic. You can register there as well. There are a lot of people waiting for a kidney or other organ and some may not make it. I am ever so grateful for my deceased donor. You can save many lives and improve many more by registering. Thank you to all those who are registered organ donors. 🙏🏻 A simple reblog of the people in need of a kidney or other organ would help. Thank you for your consideration. 🙏🏻

Also- For all who have kidney disease of any type I recommend following @kidneystories2013

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#Donate life #donate life month #organ donation #organ donor #organ donor needed #organ donation saves lives #donatelife #kidney donor needed #reblog to help save a life #kidney #kidney disease #ckd #esrd #pkd #fsgs

[usavinyls]

Etsy listing available in my shop

Check out this item in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/1384010339/advertise-for-a-kidney-donor-search-for

#hero needed #kidney donor needed #kidney transplant #Find kidney

[dustydeplorable215]

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#kidney transplant #kidney donor #in need of help

[bigboymoozz]

Every time o research things to learn abt my brothers new type one diabetes diagnosis I have vivid flashbacks to how he looked when we were loading him into the car to go to the er and I start having a panic attack

#mark says #t1d #t1diabetic #and then i feel guilty bc i need to learn to help as much as i can #but i wanna puke bc my brains telling me hes gonna go into dka and almost die again #and wtf do you do overnight?? do yiu just load up on insulin and hope nothing crazy happens? #why cant he be type two like my grandmas. #like its still diabetes yes but its at least pill controlled (sometimes) #im literally on a t2d medication for my pcos (metformin) and it makes me shit my brains out. my grandma is too. also makes her shit her #brains out #but at least it isnt insulin #chop chop find a cure docs and sciences #hope he can get a pump #did expensive reserch on pancreatic transplant bc before i knew it was dead donors only i was fully abt to #give him half lf mine like a kidney 💀 #but yeah hes in the icu.

[black-girls-wizdom]

I’m a pediatric registered nurse. I’ve been on dialysis since I was 9 years old and I’m now 27. If you want to hear more of my story click the link.

Donate! Share! Think about becoming a living donor!

#black girl magic #black girls rock #healing #black women #kidney failure #chronic kidney disease #chronic kidney failure #kidney transplant #ckd #ESRD #organ donor #organ donation #organ donation awareness #I Need A Kidney #black nurses matter #black nurses rock #pediatric nurse #pediatric registered nurse #registered nurse #chronic pain #chronic illness #kidney Donor #Kidney donor need #john hopkins hospital #end stage renal disease #atypical hus #Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome #HELP #poetry

[eats-the-stars]

might be going into the cities with my sister sometime soon so she can donate bone marrow to someone with leukemia. she signed up for some kind of “we’ll tell you if you match w/somebody who needs any kind of donor” program a while back and they contacted her earlier today to tell her she’s got a match. I’ll probably be going with her, so that’s interesting. kind of disappointed I can’t donate stuff, but I’m anemic and I react poorly to anesthesia (had a past surgery where I woke up early and was partially paralyzed and lost sensation in my legs and it was a big mess) and I think I have something else that disqualifies me. maybe the fact that I had Lyme Disease? but yeah my sister’s wanted to be a donor for a long time so she’s pretty happy about this. she donates blood and plasma already around here, but bone marrow is a step up for sure. fortunately she’s very healthy and has a good history with reacting to anesthesia and surgery recovery and all that, so no issues anticipated.

#leukemia is very serious so i hope this helps this person out #love the fact that ppl can just donate stuff like this #like we're not getting paid but apparently they work things out w/your place of work or something #to cover your days absent and they handle travel expenses #i think this one is two days away and i'll go w/her because u obviously can't just get surgery 2 days away alone #she might need me to drive her back or just help her around u know? #but yeah really neat how ppl will just sign up for a 'donate parts of my body to a stranger' program #human nature really is 'it feels good to help ppl' at the core #like the reward is literally just 'yay i helped someone.' #my sister was even down to donate something bigger like a kidney or so on #(also something i cannot do since i am already down like half a kidney) #maybe in the future she'll get to do that. i know that finding donor matches can be really hard #and there are long wait lists and things #it probably helps that my sister has the universal donor blood type #but i know there are other factors at play that are more complicated than my limited medical understanding

[beccaneedsone]

Well hello tumblr! It’s been a hot minute since I’ve been on here. A lot has happed to me and to good ol tumblr.

But listen: I got a problem. A kidney problem. You see, my kidneys don’t work like they used to. I got this autoimmune disease that has weakened my kidneys over time and I need some help.

Been looking for a living kidney donor and some funds to help me pay for all these dialysis bills I got stacked up. But what I need most is community. People to help me spread the word. Help get my story out there so I can find my One True Kidney Match. Wouldn’t it be great if they made a dating app but for finding a living kidney donation?! Ah, we aren’t there yet alas.

This page is set up to help me on this search. I have a website and everything that helps me along on this journey. Things haven’t been easy. They’ve been scary, hard, depressing, heartbreaking. I’m only 34 and about to write a living will. I didn’t have that on my bingo card for life. Did you?

Anyway! Help a gal out! Share this post, share my links. Please help however you can

www.beccaneeds.one

www.utswlivingdonor.org

#beccaneedsone livingkidneydonor utswtransplant kidneysearch #hi hello #kidneys #kidney donation #save a life #texas #searching #organ donors #transplant needed #beans #send beans #save the beans #share #donations #is it me you’re looking for

[strangebiology]

John Oliver just did an episode on body donation, which was very well-reported as usual.

It cites some older news including this amazing series on body brokers by Reuters. Some thoughts on anonymity being an issue:

It is shocking that there is no regulation on what it means to donate your body to "science," although, I'm not sure exactly who can say what that definition is or should be. Also, plenty of people would be happy to have their bodies used in a museum, but you CAN'T, because body donations are shuffled around and anonymized. We wouldn't have any issue with consent if we let people who WANT to be on display be on display.

When I read The Red Market, an amazing book about the trade in human body parts, it really highlighted the issues with mandated anonymity. WHY does a deceased heart, kidney, or blood donor need to be anonymous? That policy has led to horrific abuse of donors all over the world (egregious examples are given in China and India), living and dead, and the recipients have no idea because of that mandate. Mandated anonymity is a shield against regulation, public understanding, and accountability.

I wonder if people believe in anonymizing things because they think that makes the death not real. I've noticed people selling all sorts of human and animal remains with no description as to where they came from, and no one asks, and no one complains. I understand; sometimes some information is lost to time, or a business owner maybe can't take the time to verify the exact origins of things. Fine.

But take for example all these human fetuses for sale on Facebook. I'm not here to argue about that, although it's odd, and I understand both sides of the controversy regarding selling them. When I saw those posts, no one bats an eye.

Then when someone offered to sell her own aborted fetus (context: this person went in for an abortion but was told the fetus was dead anyway) people freaked out. In the same group where they're buying the fetuses of strangers. So...it's only ok to sell body parts when the person whose body it came from did not consent? That's our standard?

The same goes for animal body parts. "Hey, buy these dead rats!" Fine and dandy. "Buy these dead rats! Here is some context about their lives and/or deaths--" Disgusting! How dare you! Those were living things!

Death is disgusting and horrifying and I'm NOT saying that everyone has to think about it all the time or look at dead bodies or even understand it. What I am saying is that when we complain about transparency and enact policies that make it impossible to actually understand who these body parts are coming from, or to track them, that breeds an industry where abuse of consent is hard to avoid.

Lastly, the end of the Last Week Tonight show showed what happens when you let donors be known. It's beautiful.

#human remains law #human remains #dead people #death #human skeletons #Youtube

[reasonsforhope]

"For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day clinical study—a first step in addressing the critical crisis worldwide of kidney donor organ shortage.

The University of Alabama’s pre-clinical human study at Birmingham also advances the science and promise of xenotransplantation as a therapy to potentially cure end-stage kidney disease—just as a human-to-human transplants can.

“It has been truly extraordinary to see the first-ever preclinical demonstration that appropriately modified pig kidneys can provide normal, life-sustaining kidney function in a human safely and be achieved using a standard immunosuppression regimen,” said UAB transplant surgeon scientist Jayme Locke, M.D., director of UAB’s Comprehensive Transplant Institute and lead author of the paper...

The peer-reviewed findings published last month in JAMA Surgery describes the pioneering pre-clinical human research performed on a recipient experiencing brain death...

The pre-clinical human brain death model developed at UAB can evaluate the safety and feasibility of pig-to-human kidney xenografts, or transplants, without risk to a living human. It is named for transplant pioneer Jim Parsons, an organ donor whose family generously donated his body to advance xenotransplant kidney research, like the latest patient did.

A Critical Need

Kidney disease kills more people each year than breast or prostate cancer, while more than 90,000 people are on the transplant waiting list. More than 800,000 Americans are living with kidney failure and 240 Americans on dialysis die every day. The wait for a deceased donor kidney can be as long as five to 10 years, and almost 5,000 people per year die waiting for a kidney transplant.

Groundbreaking Study Details

The 52-year-old study subject for this research lived with hypertension and stage 2 chronic kidney disease, which affects more than one in seven U.S. adults, or an estimated 37 million Americans. As part of this study, the subject had both of his native kidneys removed and dialysis stopped, followed by a crossmatch-compatible xenotransplant with two 10 gene-edited pig kidneys, or UKidney.

The transplanted pig kidneys made urine within four minutes of re-perfusion and produced more than 37 liters of urine in the first 24 hours. The pig kidneys continued to function as they would in a living human for the entirety of the seven-day study. Also, the kidneys were still viable at the time the study was concluded.

“In the first 24 hours these kidneys made over 37 liters of urine,” said Dr. Locke. “It was really a remarkable thing to see.” ...

Gene editing in pigs to reduce immune rejection has made organ transplants from pigs to humans possible. The natural lifespan of a pig is 30 years, they are easily bred, and they have organs of similar size to humans. Genetically modified pig kidneys have been extensively tested in non-human primates, and the addition of UAB’s preclinical human research model—the Parsons Model—now provides important information about the safety and efficacy of kidneys in human transplant recipients."

-via Good News Network, September 17, 2023

#organ donation #organ donor #organ transplant #medical news #medical research #pigs #kidney transplant #kidney diseases #dialysis #good news #hope #hope posting #human biology

[strawberrystepmom]

i've been asked by so many people lately how i can so confidently believe in love in all of its forms and i've been pondering this myself a lot because everything feels so unbelievably loveless but like the shining example that comes to mind is my hairdresser and her husband

she is one of my closest friends. i didn't know her before she cut my hair for the first time but we bonded fast and we bonded hard and she loved her job. spent an hour and a half telling me about how the best part of her job is getting to talk to people and hear about their lives, to understand their stories and to help them feel good about themselves. this is not me going on a tangent about how wonderful she is (although i could), this is important to the rest of the story.

the last time she cut my hair was november 2022. she told me that evening she had decided to go and work a corporate job because her husband had been recently diagnosed with kidney failure. we cried, i hugged her hard, i told her if she needed anything that i would be there for her and we left the chair and station we became friends in and at for the final time together that evening.

she doesn't like her corporate job but the benefits, mainly health insurance, are undeniable and she has to have them for his treatment. they were told in february 2023 that he would need a kidney transplant or he likely wouldn't live to see 35. he was 32 at the time. this, of course, created great stress for them as a family and they scrambled to see if they could find a donor.

she offered herself as a donor and he was apprehensive about it. he didn't flat out deny her the ability to at least find out of if they were compatible so she did and as it turned out - they're a match.

now to get to the point about love.

she did this with no expectation the two of them would be together forever. she did this understanding there may come a time there will be a literal piece of her inside of him and he isn't by her side. she did this out of pure, unconditional love and desire to see the man she cares about live and thrive for as long as he can. it's not buying his love or affection or guaranteeing it forever nor is she asking that.

i've had a few conversations with her about the donation and transplant and she doesn't treat it like it's a big deal. she told me that his mother made a comment along the lines "well it's not like he can give it back if you decide you want to go" as if it's inevitability that she will.

she did it because she loves him right now and that's enough. to give someone a kidney because you love them so much.

that's one of the many ways i know love exists.

[macgyvermedical]

If someone got an organ transplant from an identical twin, would they need immunosuppressants like most transplant recipients?

Like, the reason people need immunosuppressants if they’ve had a transplant is because the transplanted organ has different dna cuz it’s from another person, so the immune system pings it as foreign and attacks it. Right?

But if the organ is from an identical twin, that’s the same dna, so….?

You're right- they would not need immunosuppresant drugs because the body would recognize the tissue as itself and not attack it.

In fact, the first successful kidney transplant was between identical twins in 1954. At the time it was very well studied that homografts (transplants between the same species) were almost universally rejected, and there was no way to suppress immune function or prevent rejection in these cases unless the donor and recipient were identical twins.

The first methods for immunosuppression mostly involved radiation, and while these were occasionally successful, they were much more often not successful. The first successful immunosuppressive drug regimen came out in 1963, a combination of prednisone and azathioprine, increasing the survival rate to 70% at one year post surgery.

In 1976 the first single immunosuppressive drug was introduced- cyclosporine. Even better results occurred when mixed with prednisone. In 1989, tacrolimus became the new standard anti-rejection medication, since it was less toxic and more potent than cyclosporine.

#whump reference #writing reference #organ transplantation

[usavinyls]

#find kidney donor #kidney needed #customizable

[tg-headcanons]

i just had this thought after watching one too many medical dramas, how are hospitals going to change after ghoul legalization? how many doctor will turn up all of a sudden being ghouls? will ghouls only be allowed to treat ghouls and humans only be allowed to treat human? and will the medical field evolve for the better for both humans and ghouls?

GHOULS IN HEALTHCARE

Medical care is not something most ghouls had access to, and ghouls aren’t something most doctors considered before, but after legalization and the promise made that ghouls would be given access to doctors, the need arose. It was a big shake up of the system, doctors pushing back against the idea of retraining, a lack of a plan for how to go about getting ghouls into hospitals, and even the common argument that ghouls should go the a vet instead. To try to handle this, former CCG ghouls researchers were offered positions in hospitals as the closest thing there is to a ghoul specialist. Between their knowledge of ghouls and doctor’s knowledge of medicine, the early access ghouls got was shoddy, not well researched, and often fraught with mistreatment and neglect

It got better as more ghouls came out, and the previous few ghouls who managed to become doctors became highly sought both as practitioners and for teaching medical students and leading studies. Humans making a big stand about refusing to be treated by a ghoul doctor we’re just loud and obnoxious because the ghoul doctors they’re oh so adamant about rejecting are way too busy founding a new branch of medicine

A lot of things had to be tested and researched. For the first time there’s ghouls that need prescriptions and treatments and they’re really trying to figure out what medicines in what doses work. Most ghouls make a few extra bucks here and there from studies desperate for a ghoul to take some pills and report results

The advancements in medical technology they got from ghouls were immense. Previously terminal diseases are getting treatments using ghoul rc cells. Previously irreversible chronic illnesses and injuries are making incremental progress for the better and increasing quality of life. Even organ donation is better. It turns out that if a ghoul with low enough rc donates a kidney or lung to a human who’s okay with a lifetime of rc supplements, it works just fine, and there’s ghouls now who’s whole job is just being an organ farm with a salary and benefits

Half-ghoul surgery becomes a rare, but lifesaving procedure. It took a long time for it to be okayed on human trials after the studies on the quinx and artificial ghouls came out to the horror of the entire medical community, but in some cases of extreme disfigurement and injury, if there’s a donor kakuhou available they can implant it. It’s a heavily regulated and closely monitored procedure, but a human who’s lost a significant portion of their body can be saved by the process of becoming na artificial ghoul, regenerate most of what they lost, then be given the treatment to remove the need for human flesh

Over time, more ghouls are going into the medical field, and when the original uproar from people upset at having to entrust their health to their predators died down, it became clear that they make great doctors. They can sniff out a lot of infection or diseases. They can smell blood and bile on someone’s breath. They can utilize adaptations meant for hunting humans to diagnose them and, when in an emergency, they tend to have no problems sticking their hands into a mess of a body. Many ghouls are sought out as emts and paramedics for that ability to sniff out blood and lack of disgust response when it comes to the nasty side of saving lives

#tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul headcanon

[one-in-lemillion]

God help me I’m thinking about Shidou Kirisaki again and I just. I love him. I’m gonna post my Reddit rant about what I think his “murder” is, so forgive me if it’s messy:

Shidou had a wife and two sons. Shidou is a triage surgeon, who specifically works in organ transplant. He seems to think his “murder” are multiple murders, more specifically that his victims are the braindead patients who he’d convince their families to pull the plug on, so he could use their otherwise healthy organs on other patients to help them recover.

But I don’t think that’s the case. His victim, depending on the view, is one of two people: his eldest son, or his wife. I’m leaning toward the latter.

But why is his eldest son in contention at all? Well, I have a theory. His first voice drama is called “Molech”, a Canaanite god infamous for his worship involving the sacrifice of children. What I think happened was, he was out one day, grocery shopping, while his wife and sons were out somewhere else driving, where they got into a horrific accident. His youngest son was killed instantly, while his eldest son and wife were left in critical condition.

Shidou, being a respected surgeon, likely tried to use his influence to help his family himself. In the second voice trailers, the corrupted audio says something along the lines of “don’t get in my way, or I’ll kill you.” I suspect he’s saying this to one of his colleagues, who is likely trying to steer him away from getting involved, because it’s generally bad practice for surgeons and doctors to get involved with their own families, as they’re too emotionally close to the situation.

So back to the Molech thing. I think what happens next is Shidou is presented with a choice: he can save either his son, or his wife. They both likely need organs transplanted, and being related, likely are compatible with each other. But their critical condition means that to wait for more donors could mean they both die. So, Shidou chooses to sacrifice his son, to save his wife.

This is supported in the Triage MV, where Shidou is seen handing his eldest son a tag, one that resembles the type seen on the toes of cadavers in the morgues, symbolizing that Shidou sentenced his own son to death. But that’s still not Shidou’s “murder”.

So Shidou’s wife receives her son’s organ, maybe a kidney, or liver, or whatever, we don’t know what. Could be multiple organs. And Shidou’s wife goes through periods of seemingly pulling through, and taking turns for the worse, as seen in Thrown Down by the flower Frankenstein standing up before falling apart again.

His first voice trailer, he says something along the lines of “now I understand what I’ve been robbing people of”. All this time, he’s been convincing families to pull the plug on their own braindead family members. But then it finally came the time for him to make that choice, and it destroyed him. He became suicidal, he came into MILGRAM begging for the death penalty, because he feels he has nothing left.

So Shidou does all this work to keep his wife alive, including sacrifice their own son to make it happen, but in the end, she still died. That is his true murder. The one he feels guiltiest over. He made the ultimate sacrifice, and it still didn’t bear any fruit.

I would like to say, I have a theory that guilt is ultimately what lands you in MILGRAM. It’s why Fuuta’s there and not any of his online friends, for example. So Shidou’s one true “murder” is the one that he feels the most crushing amount of guilt over. Because now not only did he lose both his sons, but also his wife, who he sacrificed one of his sons to try to save. Had she survived, it would have been at least a little worth it, but she died too, making his decision to sacrifice his son weigh even more on his conscience.

It’s also something to take note of that Shidou mentions in Molech how he’s happy Es is a child, because he only trusts a child to judge him. Because he feels as though his own son would judge him, for the choices he made. Shidou despises himself, because he sees himself as responsible for the deaths of 2/3 of his family unit.

#Milgram #shidou milgram #shidou kirisaki

[doomspaniels]

One of my dearest friends needs help, and he doesn't know what else to do besides ask. I also don't know what to do besides ask. Please reblog if you can.

I knew him when he was diagnosed, and I have watched as he has dramatically changed his diet, taken awful meds, and otherwise done everything he possibly could to slow this outcome. But it was going to happen, no matter what.

Hi folks. My name is Matthew Balaun. I'm a 45 year old father of a wonderful young daughter. I'm also in need of a replacement kidney.

I was born with polycystic kidney disease, which is the same disease that ultimately led to my mother's death when she was 46. I was diagnosed with the same disease in my early 20s. I've done everything I could to slow the progression of the disease, but there is no cure and the only real treatment is transplant.

It is a hell of a thing to have to ask, but if any of you are willing to consider being a living kidney donor, it would mean the world to me. You would literally be saving my life.

https://matt.needsakidney.org/

#we all deserve to live

[erinsintra]

for the first seventeen years of my life i thought gender reassignment surgery worked the exact same way as a kidney transplant.

like, let's say you wanted to have a dick, you would need to find a suitable donor or they would take it from a deceased person and put it in you (ofc it had to have the same blood type as yours so your system wouldn't reject it). the same thing applied if you wanted a coochie (but they would need to remove what's there first as to open up space!)

the thought that maybe, just maybe, dongs don't work the same way as kidneys do, had not crossed my mind at all until last year.

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