The search for a living donor kidney is getting slimmer. Jack’s sister found out that her blood type is A+ while Jack’s is an O. Our friend, Rosie, also was willing to be tested, but found that her blood type is also A+….same as mine, and our children’s John and Debbie. O is a universal donor, but cannot be donated to except with O. While Jack is doing very well on his “peritoneal dialysis”, and is on the waiting list for a cadaver kidney both at Madison and Froedert in Milwaukee, a living donor kidney is much more beneficial in that rejection is minimized and the life of the kidney increased.
Some day, I imagine if he gets very sick, I will have the courage to put out a plea perhaps in our Church for a donor. Right now, he deals with the 4 times a day “exchanges” and, God bless him, really doesn’t complain, but is grateful for the good health he has. He is a living example of “Faith” and “Goodness” to me.
