16-I Love You With All My Kidney (Jamie needs a donor)
Jamie is a 35 year old wife, mother, and teacher. She was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease (PKD) at the age of 16. She has a rapidly progressive form of the disease and is already having to face the idea of dialysis. Dialysis is a treatment option for those with end stage kidney failure. Dialysis, however, is a large time commitment and can lead one to extreme exhaustion along with other potential complications. Kidney transplant is often a preferred choice. Please listen to Jamie’s journey through her disease process and the steps she is now taking in order to find a kidney donor. Hear from those who work in the transplant field discuss the process of transplant and donation while dispelling any myths and misconceptions. April is National Donate Life Month and April 6, 2022 is Living Donor Day. You can save one or more lives!
If you want to see if you could be a potential living donor for Jamie Sunderland, go to https://emorylivingdonor.org/ using her date of birth, 6/24/1986. Also check out https://unos.org/ for additional information on transplant and organ donation.
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Jamie Sunderland
Hi! I’m Jamie Sunderland. I’m 35 years old, I live in Chattanooga with my husband, Daniel, and our 11 year old daughter, Lucy. I’m a teacher at a small private school here in Chattanooga. I am in charge of our RTI program, and I work with students that need additional support outside of the classroom. I met my husband in college and the first time we laid eyes on each other, he scoffed at me and asked someone what I was doing there. That just about sums up our entire relationship haha! Lucy is amazing and smart girl. She brings absolute joy and I couldn’t be prouder of her! We have three pets. A French bulldog named Bodhi, a perfect cat named Emily and a cat that terrorizes us daily named Frank.
Janey Young
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I am passionate about living donation, having worked for the past 10 years at the Transplant Center at UC Davis Health, with chronically ill kidney disease patients. These patients are desperately waiting for a kidney transplant and some, unfortunately, die waiting as their disease progresses. I am a fearless cheerleader, reminding my patients to stay active, to be patient, and encouraging them to find a living donor: and that a healthy person can live a normal life with just one kidney. I am truly blessed to be in excellent health so decided to “practice what I preach” and donated a kidney to one of my patients. She was discharged on Thanksgiving Day 2020 with my left kidney. If I could regrow that kidney, I would do it again!
Annette Needham
I am a Transplant Quality Manager in a transplant center in California managing quality, data, regulatory, compliance, and research for our transplant program.
Currently, we are a kidney program only but, working to expand to heart and liver, plus we also have a dialysis access program.
I have been in the field of transplantation for over 24 years and my experience includes kidney, pancreas, liver, living donor, heart, and transplant management. The majority of my work experience is in kidney transplant and living kidney donation. I have also served on several committees, both local and national, and given several poster and live presentations over the years. I am on the Executive Board of Directors for NATCO, a transplant professional organization.
I have a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Masters in Nursing with Family Nurse Practitioner certificate, and Bachelor of Science in nursing. I am also a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC).
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