They say you will do anything for your kids. It is so true.
Katrina was a match.
One minute you are going in for your 20 week scan, the next a team of specialists enter your life and one thing because the most important of all.
Life.
Living donors are rare in Australia. About 250 per year. This is one of those stories. This is Katrina's story.
This is 100 Women in 100 days (ish)
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OH! And if you are listening for the first time! This is your introduction (required reading). This series is unedited, raw and just gets straight into it. You have been warned!
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Live donations
In Australia, you can also donate a kidney while you’re alive, as long as you’re over the age of 18 and meet the criteria for a donor. You can choose to donate to:
someone you know, to whom you’re related genetically (such as a parent, sister, or brother), or emotionally (including a spouse or close friend)
the next suitable recipient on the transplant waiting list. Contact the Kidney Transplant Coordinator in your closest transplant hospital for more information.
Paired donations
Another form of living donation is referred to as a ‘paired exchange’.
This is when there are potential kidney donor/recipient pairs whose blood types are incompatible. The two recipients trade donors so that each recipient can receive a kidney from a better match.
People willing to join the Australian and New Zealand Paired Kidney Exchange Program (ANZKX) should discuss this with their kidney specialist.