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Kim (Sunshine) Vander Veen

Steph V Needs A LIVING Kidney DONOR

Please help my sister 🙏 ❤️

Stephanie is my sister, she is a strong independent women who just loves living life. She definitely enjoys her pets and just being with family. We enjoy when I do see her since she lives in Maryland we like to get mani & pedicures, being outside enjoying a glass of wine and just talking. Her family means everything to her and we want her around for many many years to come.

I know she loves to travel so that has affected her life a little if she needs to be placed on dialysis , that is something we hope never happens and she finds a living donor!!

Getting her life back to the things she enjoys, which is her Family & Friends & traveling!

I am helping my sister, if you guys can consider sharing my story of her or even help by seeing if you want to be a donor that would mean the world to us. Just help any way you can.

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

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

1800 Orleans St, Baltimore, MD, 21287

(410) 614-9345 Email Transplant Center

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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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Share the Importance of Living Donation

There are currently 120,000 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the U.S. Of these, 100,000 await kidney transplants.

The median wait time for a kidney transplant is 3-5 years and can vary depending on health, compatibility, and where you live.

In 2014, 17,107 kidney transplants took place in the U.S. Of these, 11,570 came from deceased donors and 5,537 came from living donors.

Every 14 minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant waitlist.

A kidney from a living donor lasts longer and begins functioning more quickly than a kidney from a deceased donor.

In 1995, kidney donation became minimally invasive with a procedure called laparoscopic nephrectomy, which only requires four small incisions. Hospital stay is typically only 3 days after this operation.

Not blood type compatible with your recipient to be a living donor? Kidney Paired Donation (the “kidney swap” program) enables incompatible candidates with a living donor to receive a kidney from a compatible donor.

Last year, over 700 living donor kidney transplants occurred using Kidney Paired Donation.

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