Jenny Godnick's experience with organ donation first began when her brother-in-law Steven became ill with kidney disease.
Steven was suffering from a severe form of Scleroderma, a long-term autoimmune disease, and lost his kidney function in March 2010. While Steven was a candidate for a kidney transplant, Ms. Godnick, a Hightstown resident, was not a match for him directly.
In May 2014, Ms. Godnick participated in the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center Kidney Paired Donation program.
According to the Medical Center's website, KPD is a program that assists donor/recipient pairs who are incompatible with each other to find another donor/recipient with whom they can exchange kidneys to enable a more favorable compatibility and allow a transplant to take place.
"There are more than 120,000 people waiting for a transplant, but one organ donor can save eight lives and one tissue donor can enhance the lives of over 75 people. But, for a variety of medical reasons, less than one percent of people can become organ donors," said Joe Roth, president and CEO of the NJ Sharing Network, Joe Roth wants shared.
from Donate Life Organ and Tissue Donation Blog℠ http://ift.tt/2hHL1Mg
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