Heading back to college and getting responses for kidney donation
Hi everyone!
I know I'm not on here much, but here's yet another awaited update. I'm enjoying my last full week of freedom before I head back to classes next week on Sept 7th, where I will be taking my place as an upperclassman as a Medaille College senior classman. This is going to be a hectic year, with all the responses I've been getting from people who want to get tested for me to donate a kidney to me. I've been getting emails and phone calls from people from other states. I'd say I've been getting approximately 5 total. I have at least 2-3 people going through the process of getting paperwork done to go ahead and get bloodwork done and I've gotten 2 phone calls.
I'm a part of a few websites called Kidney Conenction of WNY and matching donors. And, it seems that matching donors seems to be doing the trick, because I've been getting a lot of responses that it's amazing that there are people out there that want to help me out. But, the only problem being is that I don't have an official treatment plan for before surgery and after the transplant, because I want to make sure things are in place before I have the green light to go ahead for surgery.
This is getting kind of exciting, because along with the responses I've been getting, I have great vet tech professors who are also willing to help me find a donor, so the more responses I get, the more people that get tested, the more chances I have of finding someone. It would be kind of nice if I could receive a transplant for my 23rd birthday, but I highly doubt that, that will be happening.
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Comment by Jessica Olivia Frysz on September 1, 2010 at 11:39pm
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yes it is very exciting!
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Comment by Cheryl Biermann on September 1, 2010 at 11:10pm -
How exciting, Jessica!
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