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Eileen Woodley

LIVING Liver DONOR NEEDED

I love to watch the sun coming up. ✨

Hello my name is Eileen Woodley
Every morning, I find joy in walking along the shore and watching the sun slowly rise. It starts my day on a positive 🎶 I’m adventurous at heart-whether it's traveling, exploring new places, swimming or simply enjoying the beauty of nature.

Even individuals who prioritize a healthy lifestyle can still be affected by liver disease, it's highlighting its important to listen to our bodies! My first warning signs were sudden swelling in my stomach, legs, and feet. An MRI confirmed that my liver was failing. I'm still in awe of how far technology has come, and the incredible impact living donations can have on people's lives.
After months of chemotherapy, I was accepted onto Yale’s Transplant Waiting List and later Mount Sinai's Transplant Waiting List.
As I continue to take things one step at a time while awaiting a liver transplant, I’m also actively searching for a living donor.
💚 A single act of kindness has the power to change a life! 💚

Finding a living liver donor would allow me to receive a transplant much sooner and would also free up a liver for someone else on the waiting list who does not have that option. One generous donor can help save 2 lives.
Be A Live'R of Life 🎗 💝

Financial burdens shouldn’t prevent the gift of life. The National Living Donor Assistance Center ( NLDAC ) can offer financial support for living donor travel expenses.

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Become Eileen Woodley's Donor

If you are considering being a living donor please use links below to contact Eileen Woodley's Transplant Center. Begin by completing the donor questionnaire

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(INQUIRES ARE 100% CONFIDENTIAL)

Becoming a Liver DONOR Find a Transplant Center near you

Yale New Haven Transplantation Center

333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520

(866) 925-3897 Email Transplant Center

Did you know?

Medical expenses for living organ donors are 100% covered, and inquires from potential donors are 100% confidential! Contact the Transplant Center to learn more about living donation.

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Liver transplantation has been a successful treatment and standard of care for end-stage liver disease since the early 1980s.

Technical advancements in liver surgery, as well as the liver's tremendous ability to regenerate, have made living donor liver transplantation a life-saving reality.

There are currently 120,000 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the U.S. Of these, 15,000 await liver transplants.

Although more than 6,000 liver transplants were performed last year, over 1,700 patients died while waiting on the list.

Deceased donor livers are allocated to patients based on how sick they are, determined by their MELD score, where sicker patients receive priority.

Living donation offers patients the option of transplant before they get very sick--regardless of MELD score--significantly decreasing the time they wait for a liver.

Living donation not only saves the life of the recipient; it also frees up a liver for a patient on the waiting list who does not have that option.

The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) are numerical, objective scales that allocate available livers to the sickest patients. Patients move up the list as their scores increase.

The first living donor liver transplant took place in 1988. Since then, living donors have continued giving the gift of life and making a difference.

When a recipient has a living donor, the wait time for transplant is shorter and the transplant can be scheduled in advanced when the recipient is in good health and when it is convenient for both the donor and the recipient.

Financial burdens shouldn’t prevent the gift of life. The National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) can offer financial support for living donor travel expenses.

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