Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
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Jenna is 25 years old and was on dialysis for 3 years before getting a kidney transplant. She's had nearly 6 years with The Brave Little Kidney.
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Watch Jenna's video - she needs a kidney from a living donor - type o, positive or negative - both will work. Thank you for helping to share her story. We are in So. Calif. and she's starting dialysis. Please help. Thank you ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Please read Jenna's story and share it - she needs a kidney donor, type O (+ or - is ok) http://www.livingkidneydonorsearch.com/our-stories2/jenna-franks2/
Thank you ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Jenna is one of the over 100,000 Americans waiting for an organ transplant. Living donors make the difference between life and death for patients who could wait years for a transplant. Please visit Jenna's facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor Thank you ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Butterflies represent rebirth.
It's quite a life-changing experience when someone who has been sick receives the gift of life.
Celebrate Life: Be a Hero. Be an Organ Donor. Save a Life ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Just think about it.- A deceased donor can give kidneys, pancreas, liver, lungs, heart, intestinal organs, plus tissue and corneas- A living donor can give a kidney, or a portion of the liver, lung, intestine, or pancreas ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
One of the main jobs of the kidneys is to filter the waste out of the blood. The average person has 1 to 1½ gallons of blood circulating through their body. The kidneys filter that blood as many as 400 times a day! More than 1 million tiny filters inside the kidneys remove the waste ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Forget the chocolates - how about signing up as a kidney donor? www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
Advantages to being a living kidney donor:
No medals. No ticker tape parades. Just the everlasting thanks of another human being.
Living donors make miracles happen ..read more
Kidney For Jenna | Karol Franks
3y ago
A quote from the 1965 NBC documentary entitled "Who Shall Live?" narrated by Edwin Newman. In those early days of dialysis technology, only a few patients could be treated, and even then at great cost. The demand greatly exceeded the capacity to treat patients, and some means of selection was needed. The highly controversial decision-making process had anonymous committee members deliberating over the merits of each case. The documentary examined the troubling questions underlying decisions by the committee. Should patients with children get priority? Those who went to church? Those who had ..read more