Hi. For some of you, this may be your first time hearing this. Frank has been diagnosed with a disease called IGA Nepropathy. This disease slowly destroys the kidneys. His kidney function has dramatically worsened in the past 2 years. He is now 31 and in stage 5 kidney failure. The only option for full recovery is to receive a kidney from a donor. The average wait time on the deceased donor list is five years. He does not know when he will get that call that a kidney is available for him, so we are looking for a living donor while he waits. In the meantime, he is currently performing dialysis at home 9 hours/day, 7 days a week with hoses connected to a port surgically installed on the front of his abdomen. Please let us know if you can help in our search or if you want to learn more. He has included some facts below that you may be interested in. Thanks!

•My blood type is A+ and can accept O donors as well. Potential donors can be tested where they live to see if they qualify as a donor at no cost. If someone is interested in being a donor contact me and I’ll put you in touch with the coordinator at the transplant center in Charlotte, NC. The coordinator will handle everything for screening arrangements.

•Donating a kidney does not affect a person's life expectancy. On the contrary, studies show that people who donate a kidney outlive the average population.

•People lead healthy lives with one kidney. After kidney donation, your remaining kidney will increase in size and take over the whole job of filtering your blood. Health outcomes for living donors are excellent and 99 percent of donors say they would recommend living kidney donation.

•Potential donors are thoroughly evaluated to help ensure that they’re healthy enough to withstand the donation process. Most donor surgeries are minimally invasive in nature, and the recovery time is usually two weeks.

•More than 100,000 people are currently on the national waitlist for a kidney, and that transplants from living donors tend to last longer and function better.

•The patient’s insurance typically covers the costs of their donor’s care.

Thank you ❤️

In addition to the above, Frank has a mortgage requirement, the care and safety of his young family, accumulating medical co-pays, auto & home insurance premiums, egregious credit card interest rates, car payments, commuting fuel, all of which is putting financial demands that are beginning to overwhelm and put him in a hole. All of these strains are burying him financially, an individual who was doing everything right for a piece of the American Dream until this medical disaster hit.

We would appreciate your forbearance to read all the information we have offered, and will further welcome any helpful contribution you are able to provide.