By Matthew Harmody Special to The Pilot
April is National Donate Life Month. Over 100,000 Americans are currently on the transplant waiting list, with about 90,000 awaiting a kidney.
The topic of kidney donation is near and dear to me for several reasons. First, my father developed chronic kidney disease (CKD) and eventually kidney failure at age 50, requiring dialysis.
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Kristal Higgins just wants to be healthy, become a nurse and travel to Greece. But she has kidney failure and has been on a transplant waiting list for six years.
The disease and its comorbidities have touched many of her loved ones. Her mother has stage 2 kidney disease. Her father is diabetic, a risk factor for kidney failure, as was her late grandmother. Several of her relatives have kidney failure. Read more in USA Today.