A Maine woman’s unorthodox approach to finding a kidney donor has paid off.
WABI-TV reports Linda Deming was so desperate for a kidney transplant that she posted signs along the side of the road and advertised from her car.
At least 50 people have reached out to her and she eventually found two matches. The Pownal woman got the green light from her doctors last week and her surgery is scheduled for next week.
Her donor is 37-year-old Amber McIntyre, a married mother of four from Kenduskeag. The Bangor waitress says she saw Deming’s story on Facebook. She will meet Deming the night before the surgery.
Deming says she hopes her story will help raise awareness and prompt more people to become donors.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Normally you don’t need a match if you have a donor. I am on the transplant list right now, so I’ve seen the rules. If you have a donor, his or her kidney will go into the pool and you get one of the kidneys that matches yours from the pool. Any donor automatically goes to the head of the line if anything happens to their remaining kidney. To any potential donors: You can have a full, unhampered life with one kidney. Do be a donor, you can save a life without any change to yours…
Why I favor Organ farms to produce organs for OR surgery, that day or week,.
Thus need NO Organ donors.
Case closed.
Bless this donor. As of Feb 23, I have had my kidney transplant for thirteen years. It is both life saving and life giving. Unfortunatey they didn’t tell me who the donor was (cadaver donor), and I couldn’t reach out to the donors family. All I know is that he was about fifty years old and worked in a casino in Atlantic City.