Darrin Graham Needs a Kidney

Today is ! 37 million adults in America are coping with chronic kidney disease, with many undergoing dialysis treatment and thousands currently waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant.

Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania underscored the importance of kidney health by signing a proclamation honoring today as Kidney Awareness Day. We encourage all Pennsylvanians to learn more about kidney disease prevention and make your own impact by signing up to be a registered organ donor.

Read Governor Shapiro’s full proclamation here: https://bit.ly/3yqH9oo

Today is ! 37 million adults in America are coping with chronic kidney disease, with many undergoing dialysis treatment and thousands currently waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant.

Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania underscored the importance of kidney health by signing a proclamation honoring today as Kidney Awareness Day. We encourage all Pennsylvanians to learn more about kidney disease prevention, and make your own impact by signing up to be a registered organ donor.

Read Governor Shapiro’s full proclamation here: http://ow.ly/BrCK50Ne8vj

Happy ! Maintaining kidney health is vital to your overall health – your kidneys filter waste from your blood, help regulate your blood pressure, and are critical to other bodily functions. For people with end-stage kidney disease, UPMC offers living-donor kidney transplants as a first-line treatment. This life-saving treatment is possible because even though a living donor is born with two kidneys, they can live a full and healthy life with just one. Visit our website to learn more. https://bddy.me/3ysAzO8

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Darrin is a 46 year old local family man with 6 kids. Darrin is very active in his children’s lives - he plays a balancing act.

Darrin is waiting for his third kidney transplant, he has been on the kidney transplant list for 7 years. The first time his kidneys failed he was 15 years old. His last kidney lasted 14 years.

He is currently doing dialysis 3 days a week for 4 hours a day. This is very draining on him mentally, and physically . But he doesn’t let this stop him from being a great father to his children. He goes to all their sporting events, plays catch with them he helps takes care of his 6 year old son who was born with congenital heart disease and has had 5 open heart surgeries.

Darrin’s Blood Type is 0+. If are not a match and want to donate they have a program that you can donate to someone you match with and they will have to find Darrin a kidney.

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Darrin Graham still needs a kidney. Please consider becoming a living donor. Please reach out if you would consider donating a kidney or to receive information ℹ️.

UPDATE: Franklin man needs a new kidney UPDATE: "He's still really tired all the time and getting dizzy more frequently," Rhiannon Graham said about her husband Darrin who is awaiting a kidney transplant. "We're just hoping we can find a...

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March is . It’s another opportunity to spotlight the need for kidney transplants. Millions of Americans are suffering from chronic kidney disease, and more than 90,000 men, women, and children are waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant. Unfortunately, communities of color are more likely to suffer kidney failure and make up more than half of the patients on the transplant waitlist.

At Gift of Life Donor Program, we encourage everyone to register to become an organ donor. We also work with our dedicated hospital partners to promote healthy living and disease prevention. Healthy lifestyles can reduce the risk of debilitating illnesses like chronic kidney disease.

Our work continues until every person on the waitlist receives a second chance at life.

Sign up to become an organ donor today. It takes less than a minute: www.donors1.org/register

Have you already broken your New Year’s resolution? That’s okay, we won’t tell. Here’s one you can keep - make the at core.org/register to help save and heal others through donation.

What a wonderful story !!!

Donating kidney to stranger 'awakened the beast' in Crawford County man Eli Vendley learned about a fellow Linesville man's need for a kidney transplant after reading a family post on social media.

Click below ⬇️ to register to become a living donor.

UPMC Transplant Services Thank you for your interest in becoming a living donor. If you would like to donate to a specific individual, please ensure that they have been evaluated for a transplant at UPMC, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and are currently in contact with the UPMC Transplant team.

During a living-donor kidney transplant, a surgeon removes one kidney from a healthy adult and transplants it into a patient with end-stage kidney disease. This procedure is possible because, although you have two kidneys, you can live a perfectly healthy life with only one working kidney.

Living Donor Kidney Transplant | UPMC - Pittsburgh, PA A living donor kidney transplant takes an organ from a living donor and transplants it to the recipient. Learn more about living kidney donation here.

Please follow the link if you have any interest in becoming a living donor.

UPMC Transplant Services Thank you for your interest in becoming a living donor. If you would like to donate to a specific individual, please ensure that they have been evaluated for a transplant at UPMC, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and are currently in contact with the UPMC Transplant team.

Please if anyone has applied to be a living donor and has not yet heard anything reach out to this number

4126474438
For some reason they are not getting back to people and he is still waiting for a kidney.

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Darrin Graham Needs a Kidney updated their address.

What an amazing story!

Hopefully we will find a living donor for Darrin soon!!!

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During a living-donor liver transplant exchange, a total of four individuals were able to be a part of one life-changing moment that they will all cherish for the rest of their lives. Richard and Laura were both in need of liver transplants, and if it weren't for Dave and Taylor's willingness to donate, it might not have happened so quickly. “Taylor is such an amazing person and truly is my hero and my angel. We went from complete strangers to liver sisters. She is one of the sweetest people I have ever met in my life,” said Laura. To read more about their story, visit our website. https://upmc.me/36Qx9qG

Let’s keep getting the word out

Franklin man needs a new kidney "He doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke ci******es or anything. He barley even drinks soda,"

Please reach out if you have not been contacted

So I talked to UPMC donor program today and I mentioned that people applying have not been contacted by the program they asked if you have applied online to be a donor and have not heard from them please call 412 647 5800 and ask to speak to the donar program to find out where you are in the process. Thanks

Franklin man needs a new kidney "He doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke ci******es or anything. He barley even drinks soda,"

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Franklin man needs a new kidney "He doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke ci******es or anything. He barley even drinks soda,"

Please keep sharing.. help get the word out