Melissa's Story …
Melissa's Story …
Melissa's Story …
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Pay–it–Forward<br />
Kidney live donor program<br />
2010 Facts:<br />
• 82,000 on dialysis in the U.S. alone<br />
• Need live donors; usually no family match<br />
• National Kidney Registry capable to quickly match<br />
recipient to donor<br />
• In gratitude, recipient’s family member becomes<br />
live donor; pays it forward<br />
• Chain continues for multiple healing across the<br />
nation<br />
82,000 recipients CAN ALL receive kidneys<br />
within 6 months!<br />
Melissa with cousin, Stefanie Clynes, in May 2010,<br />
just a few weeks after her live kidney transplant.<br />
Today, they attend school together at Webster<br />
University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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