A long-time resident of Crown Heights and father of 9 children is in desperate need of a kidney transplant to keep him alive. His kidneys are failing and has been on dialysis for two and half years now. If you are in good health and blood type A or O you may be “the one” to give him a new lease on life.
Crown Heights Father of Nine Needs A Kidney Transplant
A long-time resident of Crown Heights and father of 9 children is in desperate need of a kidney transplant to keep him alive. His kidneys are failing and has been on dialysis for two and half years now. If you are in good health and blood type A or O you may be “the one” to give him a new lease on life.
Please come out and be tested in support of our fellow community member. All it takes to see if you are a match is a non-obligatory health screening and blood test. Members of the Montefiore Transplant Program, Renewal’s staff, and the Previous Donor Team will be in attendance.
Sunday, January 10, the 24 Teves. 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm. At the Chesed Center, 271 Kingston Avenue [between Lincoln Pl and St Johns Pl].
If you are interested in kidney donation but cannot attend the drive, please call Renewal at 718-431-9831 ext 312.
PD
To address some concerns of people afraid, if one day a relative of theirs will need a kidney after they donated theirs to a non relative…:
From all of your offspring, only a small portion of them will be compatible with you anyhow, due to varying blood types, etc. so it is very unlikely that one of your COMPATIBLE relatives will have kidney failure, while you’re in a condition to donate.
Also, I’m sure if you donate a kidney, renewal will put your mishpocho at the top of the list, if your mishpocho will G-D forbid ever require their services. And that is much better than having your own kidney to donate, because Renewal has willing donors of many blood types, while your own kidney is only one blood type, thus not allowing you to help family with varying blood types.
By the way, if you donate a kidney, and ever need one G-D forbid yourself, the law is you go to the front of the line at the national registry (and by kidney disease, both kidneys are always attacked together, so if one kidney goes bad, it means both went bad, and you will need a transplant). So if you donate a kidney, it actually solidifies your future health, if you are G-D forbid ever going to get the dreaded kidney disease. You would be in the front of the line!
Knowledge is power, so just give Renewal a call. They don’t mind talking the details through with you. You don’t have to be willing to donate to ask them questions. You’ll be surprised how many fears will disappear after talking to them. Renewal also has a greatly informative video on their website.
Kd
Renewal is an amazing frum (chareidishe) organization that pairs frum donors to dying kidney patients. They have already coordinated 27 altruistic kidney donations (including Lubavitchers).
chana
i have type O blood, and im in good health b”h.i also happen to be female- does that disqualify me as a potential donor?
hh
To Chana:
Perhaps I’m just a grub young, but if I had the opportunity to save someone from the opposite gender, I would.
A Young mother
to the female who thinks about donating, one thing to keep in mind is that you should ask about your ability to be pregnant in the future with only one kidney.
I have heard that pregnancy is more risky with one kidney.
I think men should be the ones running to donate, or middle aged women.
I dont mean to discourage anyone from donating, but do please find out all side effects from it, and make an informed decision.
Friend
Young mother,
find out! But I know a lady from Flatbush that donated her kidney through Renewal (to someone she had never met before) and had a baby a little of a year later without any pregnancy issues or concerns. Check it out.