“I have lots and lots of tearful moments because I just can't believe this.'
Eleven years ago, Vancouver resident Heather Cardno and her husband tragically lost their 27-year-old son.“Yes of course.”Now, as Cardno faces her own chronic kidney disease, dialysis, and searches for a kidney donor, she doesn’t know if irony is the right word but it’s certainly a strange cosmic coincidence.
This isn't Cardno's first experience with a life-threatening illness. "I'm also a breast cancer survivor," she adds. When someone is in kidney failure it means they’re at the point where the kidneys are not keeping up with the life-sustaining requirements. Dialysis is a treatment that cleans the blood, taking on the job that the kidneys are no longer able to do. Patients are hooked up to a machine either in a hospital or at home every day or a few times a week depending on the severity of the kidney failure.
“It doesn't fully cure kidney disease,” says Gill, “but it does create a substantial improvement in not only someone's quality of life, but also extends life expectancy.” “It would mean I would be able to do everything I've always been able to do. I could pick up travel as much as I want. I could go back to work if I want…it gives you a second chance at life,” she says.
Johnson explains that the Living Organ Donor Expense Reimbursement Program helps financially aid people across Canada who want to donate to people in B.C. or the Yukon, including subsidized furnished recovery suites. “We don’t want any financial burden to stop someone from being a live donor,” she says.
Over our lives, if we're exposed to something that's foreign, for instance a blood transfusion, our immune system will produce antibodies at a protein level even if it's the same blood type. "That doesn't cause any harm to anybody in the moment," says Gill, "it's just what the immune system does. But in the context of a transplant that person has now been sensitized, because they have all these antibodies against these proteins.
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