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Altruistic kidney donation – Ever thought of giving your kidney to someone?

Diane — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:16:18 +0000

Altruistic Kidney Donation (non-directed) = is a form of donation whereby a healthy living person is able to donate a kidney, to someone they do not know. The donor does not have a relationship with the recipient and is not informed who the recipient will be. Giving someone their life back and giving them back [...]

Karen Brown

Diane — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:05:03 +0000

Karen Brown was 39, happily married with two children, of 3 and 6 years old. She had also recently given up a career in London to spend more time with her children. As you can imagine her world was turned upside down. Here is Karen’s story. Her 6 year old daughter has also spoken of [...]

Carol Polizzi

Diane — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:47:54 +0000

I was 248 pounds. I also had HBP.The doctors told me to limit my salt and sweets intake. Tell that to a pregnant girl when she is raging for donuts. I was working at a high stress job. My kids had grown and gone. It was just me and my husband. I had not felt [...]

Karen Brown – a “crash lander” now waiting for kidney transplant

Diane — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:52:42 +0000

Nathanael

Diane — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:15:37 +0000

This is Nathanael’s story. Please read it and understand what life waiting for a kidney transplant is like. Hopefully it will inspire anyone who has not signed the organ donor register to sign up. You will see a link on the right of this page where you can sign up. Nathanael Adams – My life [...]

Nathanael Adams – life on dialysis waiting for a kidney transplant

Diane — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:59:16 +0000

Potential Altruistic Kidney Donors

Diane — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:40:36 +0000

20 Potential Altruistic Kidney Donors In the last week or so around 20 people have approached me asking about donating their kidney to a stranger. WOW! That is just so fantastic. They all were quite serious in wanting to do this having read recently all the publicity surrounding altruistic donation. Most had already done some [...]

New UK charity launches to promote altruistic kidney donation

Diane — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:37:24 +0000

A new charity has been launched “Give a Kidney – one’s enough”. Dr. Chris Burns-Cox, a kidney donor himself, thought it would be a good idea to have a charity which would help promote altruistic kidney donation and also offer support to anyone who wishes to offer their kidney. 300 people a year die in the [...]

Organ donation statistics UK – year end March 2011

Diane — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:27:01 +0000

Transplants save lives [as at November 2011 there had been 88 altruistic donors with the oldest being 82 years old and youngest 25 years old] In the UK between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011: 3,740 organ transplants were carried out, thanks to the generosity of 2,055 donors. 1,008 lives were saved in the [...]

Become a Living Kidney Donor – Giving a Kidney is a wonderful thing to do

Diane — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:22:36 +0000

Altruistic Living Kidney Donation Have you ever thought of giving your kidney to someone – when you are still living? It is called Living Kidney Donation. You can donate to family, friend, work colleage or someone you just heard about. You can also donate to a total stranger. Someone you have never met, never heard [...]