We are located in Culver City, California. Cedars Sinai will be doing the transplant.
- We cannot pay you for your kidney. No exchange of money can take place. Exchanging money is a $50,000 fine and a 5 year jail sentence.
If you are located out of the area and would like to donate:
- Some financial aid from the hospital may be available for you.
- Our insurance will cover flight costs and $100/day for a week towards hotel costs.
- Your first test to determine if you're compatible/are healthy enough to donate a kidney must be done in your area before they'll fly you out here for more testing.
- There will be two visits to Cedars Sinai. Once for the hospital to determine that you're a suitable donor, once for the actual surgery.
All donors:
- Total time from interest to surgery is usually 3 to 6 months.
- It will take 2 to 6 weeks to fully recover from the surgery--this means to pre-surgery health levels.
- It is usually a laparoscopic surgery, but there is also a 3 inch cut (like a bikini cut)
- The hospital stay for the surgery is 2 to 4 days.
Links:
- This post: http://bit.ly/nancy6of9kidney
- Nancy's Facebook: http://bit.ly/nancy6of9
- My post on Facebook: http://bit.ly/nancy6of9fb
- Information about Living Donation: https://unos.org/donation/living-donation/
- What it's like to donate a kidney: https://nkfstayinghealthy.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/why-i-chose-living-donation/amp/
How this affects me, Nancy's daughter:
- Kidney Disease and My Health
- (I will add more as I write more. Until now, I've kept quiet about it to respect my mother's privacy. Now that she is opening up about her kidney failure in her search for a kidney, she's comfortable with me writing about how her health is affecting our family.)
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