Hi my name is Luis and I'm fundraising for my sister(in law) Jadie Mae Natividad-Tan.

Im raising money to help her get the kidney transplant that they need, my brother Lois as the donor. Any donation, no matter how small, will make a difference.

This is her story:

I can never forget May of 2022, it was nearly the middle of the year when we had a very good news. A positive pregnancy test result. I then found out that I was pregnant with our second child. My husband and I were very happy, because of another bundle of joy. We were really imagining having to bring two kids along with us in everything. Given I was very careful with the pregnancy I still am going on night duties and even teach students during my spare time. As months pass I become bigger and I really felt that this pregnancy is much difficult. It was during the third trimester when I often experience elevated blood pressure despite the medications and the religious visits to my OB. My feet started to become edematous and there are times when I also am short of breath during long walks or activities. With the persistent elevated blood pressure, I submitted myself for admission with the knowledge of my OB. Then, everything happened in a flash. Since my blood pressure is persistently high, OB decided to do Cesarean Section, my baby then was still 7 months old inside my womb but is already in distress. Due to Anemia first attempt for OR was cancelled and bags of blood for transfusion were administered. So, they brought me for the second time inside the operating room and CS was done with our Nia delivered prematurely. Just right after CS. A lot of complications came to be. I started losing my breath that I was placed in a High Flow oxygen machine. X-ray showed pulmonary congestion and cardiomegaly. Pulmo considered pulmonary embolism. Both kidneys shut down. IJ catheter was inserted for emergency hemodialysis. As days pass, I was battling so many that I didn’t even imagine I would. Along with me battling is our very brave little angle Nia who got intubated and who’s poor body was inserted with a lot of needed access and meds. She was placed in an incubator for days but unfortunately, she didn’t survive. I was out of the hospital but went back again due to acute pancreatitis. I can’t even imagine how my husband was able to pay all our hospital bills for he didn’t want to stress me out. I am just so thankful to all my friend doctors for almost charging the least they can. I also am very grateful for all the help from family, friends and loved ones who really made our burden lighter. Most specially God, for never leaving our side in this challenging time. All our resources had been exhausted, financially, physically, and emotionally. It left us with number of loans and debts that we are still paying until now. Due to Nia’s and my previous hospitalization, we live from paycheck to paycheck. With all the medicines that causes me a fortune, dialysis, and our family’s basic needs I can’t barely think of having the money for the needed Kidney transplant. I was depressed when I went home. It was very difficult to accept that as an emergency room nurse for 2 years and a medical intensive care unit nurse for more than 10 years, caring for patients including CKD patient, I am now the patient. But God has a way of letting me realize my reasons for living. I have my loving husband, a beautiful daughter, supportive family, friends, and loved ones who would really help us to stand back. It’s a shame not to fight for them. And I am blessed having the people around me who made it easy for me to get back to my feet. I even became more alive when I start to go back to work, thankfully I felt the love and consideration in me getting back to work. My doctor told me, that the average most number of years for a dialysis patient to live is 10 years, so I counted. I realized I can’t even see my daughter in her debut by that time. But he had another option, since I am still young it is best if I have Kidney transplant. The more number of years for me to survive than the life time dialysis treatment. But there is a big consideration, we should raise estimated 1.6million pesos for the whole thing. Then again, we slowed down. Thinking of all the money we need, I know it’s impossible at that time. I begun looking at pages for CKD patients and got infos that really helped me to rethink of the procedure. But without a donor, no transplant can be done. Then a day came when my husband told me that he was willing to donate his kidney. First, I asked him if he was sure for I also have hesitations. Then when he told me he is sure and that the reason for all his efforts in trying to be healthy is to donate his kidney to me, I cried, simply because of the gesture and the hope that I felt. At that time I just felt that I needed to live for my husband and for our daughter and to give back in any way I can to the people who helped me and to also help others. My husband was eager to run marathons to keep him fit for donating. He even found a way to again, apply for loan just so we have the show money needed for the kidney transplant as an assurance that I can sustain the medications needed after the KT which will be taken for a lifetime (ranges from 80k per month which lessens overtime). I read so many info pages Just to know how to be able to make the 1.6m possible. So I started asking for Guarantee letters from the politicians and partylists. And asked help from our best bosses in the hospital for inquiries and referral. I opted to apply for social services so I can be sponsored by the different Agencies for help since we really can’t afford it. With limited time of paid leave, I am now processing the requirements for kidney transplant. I may not have millions, but I am willing to do everything necessary to make the Kidney Transplant possible. And I deeply pray that God will help us through this.