Hi everyone I’m Kevin and I’d like to tell you a little about my best friend and mother to our son, Liz.
Liz was diagnosed at the age of 11 on September 11th 1996, with type 1 juvenile diabetes in Evansville, In.
She has been battling with this awful disease for 27+ years and has had many, many different complications and battles within her body that she has had to overcome and fight daily to stay alive.
About a year maybe a little less after she gave birth to our son at 28 weeks in 2017, she started having kidney problems again, now she had already battled with multiple kidney diseases in her right kidney which she had to have surgery after surgery to try and help fix and was not successful in doing so, she also had to have a nephrostomy tube and bag for a long time to help treat. But in the end her right kidney just couldn’t do it anymore it was too far gone.This was in around 2009 I believe, Now jump back to 2017 when after the birth of our son she started to decline in not only the right kidney that didn’t do much anyways she then went to having both of her kidneys triple and sky rocket to not working to filter her kidneys at an alarming rate in a short period of time . After getting told by her nephrologist she needed a kidney transplant she was then referred to Dr. Hesner who got her into Boston mass General and eventually after over a year of tests and appointments, driving back and forth from the Bangor, Maine area to Boston, MA. To Mass General Hospital Repeatedly, and also her quitting smoking as well as changing her whole eating habits and lifestyle pretty much everything in order to get as healthy as possible to try and hold off getting put on dialysis for as long as possible.
she has really worked hard to change and still is every day. she was so strong through this whole process and still managed to stay the upbeat and smiling happy mommy to our sweet little boy. Always putting others especially our son first. We’ll after all of that hard work and stressful waiting she is finally on the transplant list!!
Thank the lord and Boston transplant team. And everyone who helped her get to this point! So now we need to raise the money for expenses to travel back and forth to Boston from Maine, but also to get a place for after the transplant for her and I and our son to stay at that’s close enough to the hospital because she has to be able to go back and forth to the hospital for a few weeks or more after the surgery to make sure her body doesnt reject it or have any other problems accur. This is where I ask if you can find it in your hearts to help if you can not only will I appreciate it Liz and our son will appreciate it as well. Thank you and please help spread the word and get tested to see if you are still match. Even if you aren’t a match to Liz you could be a match to someone else who has someone that is a match for her and they would do a swap. So not only Liz but someone else would both get the kidneys they so very, very much need. Thank you and God bless