New Kidney for Grace
Donation protected
In the past year and a half, or so, we learned that Grace had Chronic Kidney Disease due to VUR (Vesicouritureal Reflux) and Neurogenic Bladder. Talk about an adventure no one wants to go through!
As we have traveled down this path, searching for solutions, Grace's kidney function has continued to decline. It has become evident that the only way for Grace to live is to have a kidney transplant.
Let me tell you about Grace! Grace is 19 years old, as of the date of this writing. She is a student at University of Arizona, studying business. The first week of her freshman year at UofA, Grace spent in the hospital with acute renal failure. But Grace is something special, and a week in hospital wouldn't hold her back. Despite every thing against her; in spite of having been in hospital when she should have been in class; even with all of the follow-up doctor appointments with Nephrologists and Urologists and regular practicioners, that repeatedly take her from her classes; Grace still achieved a 4.0 in her first semester in school and made the deans list. Where Grace has a will, nothing in the world will stop her! She has a board in her room here at home with all of her hopes and dreams written down... she is the most goal oriented teenager I have evern met. She continues her schooling, knowing that she will soon have to take a break for transplant surgery, and she is still doing a phenominal job.
Grace is the kind of girl who turns heads, and turns hearts. She is smart and pretty and even frustrating at times (especially when she leaves her teacup on the table), and her laugh is infectious, her smile addicting. She is impossible not to love and she has so very much to bring to this world!
Grace will have to have a kidney transplant in order to survive. Her kidney function, as of the date of this writing is 22%, and she loses a percentage point about every month. At around 20% she goes into ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) and will go on the transplant list.
Obviously, a live donor is best. So we are trying to raise money to help pay the out of pocket costs for potential donors to be tested, and for the actual donor who may actually lose wages and have expenses as a result of their life saving gift. We also need money to pay Grace's medical expenses which will be lifelong - surgery, follow up treatments, medications, and who knows what else.
If we raise more money than we need, all of the rest of it will go to the American Kidney Fund.
We are asking for your help!
Please and Thank you!
Danielle Waluck, Grace's Mom.
PS - have a spare kidney? Contact me!
And if you aren't already, please become an organ donor.
As we have traveled down this path, searching for solutions, Grace's kidney function has continued to decline. It has become evident that the only way for Grace to live is to have a kidney transplant.
Let me tell you about Grace! Grace is 19 years old, as of the date of this writing. She is a student at University of Arizona, studying business. The first week of her freshman year at UofA, Grace spent in the hospital with acute renal failure. But Grace is something special, and a week in hospital wouldn't hold her back. Despite every thing against her; in spite of having been in hospital when she should have been in class; even with all of the follow-up doctor appointments with Nephrologists and Urologists and regular practicioners, that repeatedly take her from her classes; Grace still achieved a 4.0 in her first semester in school and made the deans list. Where Grace has a will, nothing in the world will stop her! She has a board in her room here at home with all of her hopes and dreams written down... she is the most goal oriented teenager I have evern met. She continues her schooling, knowing that she will soon have to take a break for transplant surgery, and she is still doing a phenominal job.
Grace is the kind of girl who turns heads, and turns hearts. She is smart and pretty and even frustrating at times (especially when she leaves her teacup on the table), and her laugh is infectious, her smile addicting. She is impossible not to love and she has so very much to bring to this world!
Grace will have to have a kidney transplant in order to survive. Her kidney function, as of the date of this writing is 22%, and she loses a percentage point about every month. At around 20% she goes into ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) and will go on the transplant list.
Obviously, a live donor is best. So we are trying to raise money to help pay the out of pocket costs for potential donors to be tested, and for the actual donor who may actually lose wages and have expenses as a result of their life saving gift. We also need money to pay Grace's medical expenses which will be lifelong - surgery, follow up treatments, medications, and who knows what else.
If we raise more money than we need, all of the rest of it will go to the American Kidney Fund.
We are asking for your help!
Please and Thank you!
Danielle Waluck, Grace's Mom.
PS - have a spare kidney? Contact me!
And if you aren't already, please become an organ donor.
Organizer
Danielle Waluck
Organizer
Anthem, AZ
