A Kidney for Michelle

10/15/2022

Please pray for my family. We just loss a cousin last evening. God still hears prayers.

02/15/2021

Today is Valentine's Day 2021. i have been waiting now for 7 years w John's Hopkins and 3 years w Inova Fairfax for the kidney transplant. I am undergoing a new round of test, but ask for prayer, that the Lord's will be done. Three of my associates have had a successful transplant, incurred cancer. Two are deceased after getting cancer after transplant. Waiting on a living donor from the Lord and God's will, a successful transplant.

07/10/2018

Dear Facebook Family,
I have completed all of the preoperations for kidney transplant. On June 15, I had a pyroid rectomy. The surgeon removed three of the four parathyroid glands from my throat to make sure that when the transplant does occur, the kidney will not fail. This glad was causing my calcium to eat my bones and I was in an abundance of pain. However, this was the last prior operation to transplant. I am about to print T shirts describing my need for a kidney. Maybe I can get a living donor. There have been at least 1/2 dozen stories on the internet where "givers" have responded to the need of individual's postings. Pray with and for me. Thank you. The kidney is on its way from a living donor. Thank God. Amen

03/14/2018

Today is March 13, 2018 and this was the most challenging dialysis day in my life. I arrived on time for "treatment" and of course, the adversary had to take shots at me. My machine was clogging with air in the line. This can be dangerous if air enters into your vein. This happened more than six times today with the machine alarming each time, trapping the blood with the air bubbles in the line. Thank God for Al Hassan Bangura, my tech from Sierra Leone. He is an Angel sent directly from God. He quickly came to the machine and took a syringe and removed the blood with the air from the line. I am blessed. God is letting me live in spite of the adversary. I am home resting and praying. I have been through hell and high water the last two years and five months. I've had more than 475 dialysis sessions. I am still waiting for a living or deceased kidney donor and still waiting for God to deliver me. When the kidney comes God will get the praise because God has stood by my side and has not abandoned me. God has been faithful!!! Amen.

02/07/2018

Robert knew he was headed for dialysis. He decided to wear a T-shirt that told his story and a kind stranger responded favorably. I wish it was me! I am asking all my Facebook friends to share this post and consider being a living donor!!

Robert Leibowitz owes his life to a message on a T-shirt.

04/07/2017

Good morning,
My account has been "hacked" , whatever that means. Someone truly has an issue. I am a boring dialysis patient and amazed that someone thought to do something so very foul.
More than a year now on dialysis. Have been suspended by Johns Hopkins, have had more surgeries on the access. Still trying to find a living donor, hut Blacks are not receptive to this plight, but "Black Lives Matter" if you say so. If so, I would have a living donor, if my life mattered.
Continuing to get use to this process and the things it stops you from doing. Only family and close friends know my health status. It makes you easy to prey on, easy to victimize, easy to hurt and you feel less than whole. What does God want from us? Why doesn't he send a healing or donors that are a perfect match?

08/27/2016

It is 6 am and I am on my way to dialysis. I am still praying for a living donor who is a perfect match so that I can stand up in the great congregation and give my testimony on how good God is, but just in case it doesn't happen, God is still good. He alone has sustained me through this life changing experience for almost eleven months. Praise God. But do want to ask God why did he do this to me? I am still very sad but muddling thru. Thank God for my family whom I love dearly and a handful of faithful friends. And thanks for my church, prayer team and Christians.

02/16/2016

I wish African Americans would try and understand the important need for kidney donors. I wish they would contribute kidneys and save our lives. Where are the kidneys? God knows Black people are dying every day. Where are the organs going?

02/16/2016

Today I want to talk about the amount of hair that I am loosing as a result of dialysis. I asked the doctor about it and she said, "It's expected". I asked, "Why didn't you tell me that my hair would be coming out?" She was non-responsive. I asked, "What can I do to try and save my hair?" She now tells me, "Take Biotine, and zinc capsules." I want to know why she did not tell me in advance what to do to try and save my hair. It angers me that I had to ask her what to do while she looked at me and said, "Have a nice day". I can't want to get the kidney transplant and get away from her. She shows so little concern for me as a person. I am just another dollar bill to her, making her richer every time I sit in that chair at dialysis. But I DON'T WANT TO DIE EITHER. Help, I need that kidney donor, living or deceased. Please GOD, answer my prayer, send a living donor or a deceased donor that is a perfect match. I would not wish this on my worst enemy!

02/09/2016

A young lady read the sign on my car window today. I didn't think people were reading the sign. I need a donor. Please help, A positive or O positive donor needed. I am adding the word NOW to the sign. Stay tuned.

02/09/2016

I have not posted anything in a while. I have been dealing with the depression that comes with dialysis. I wish people would try and show some compassion instead of acting like this is a regular run of the day event. They have no idea what dialysis patients experience. I said to a doctor yesterday, "My hair is coming out." She said, "Well you have gotten away a long time without anything happening to you." Your hair is going to come out". I was in a state of shock and nearly broke down in front of her. But I keep saying to myself, "I am screaming "Help" on the inside. Does anybody hear my plea?" I hope someone will donate a kidney to me soon. I am loosing my hair and I hope people will become a little more compassionate to us who are suffering with this terrible disease. We very badly need kidney donors. IF, AND I SAY IF BLACK LIVES MATTER, WHY WON'T BLACK PEOPLE HELP BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING WITH KIDNEY FAILURE AND ON DIALYSIS? We need living donors. Please help me and people like me to live.

01/14/2016

We're taking the search for a kidney donor to another level by printing cards to hand out to anyone we see. The future batches will use black ink entirely. 😊

12/26/2015

Living with and having to be on dialysis is challenging but this morning at 9:37 the most incredible thing happened to me. On 10/22/15 I took a tube of red lipstick and wrote on the back of my car window: "Kidney donor needed. 202-480-5824, A Positive, O Positive, PLEASE." As I sat at a traffic light, I could see a tall lady exit her car with a $5 bill in her hand. I thought she needed change. She came to my window and said, "Are you still taking donations for the kidney?" She was so sweet. I told her I'm not taking donations but that I am looking for a kidney donor. After 61 days of driving my car around the District and Maryland, I know that someone read the note on my car and acted. The lady and I both laughed, although I had tears in my eyes. It was a truly uplifting moment for me, one I will cling to forever. This stranger, this angel, actually responded. She actually cares. I asked God to bless her and continued on my way. God is soooo good. Amen. I am hopeful a living donor is on the way.

12/25/2015

and thank you to everyone who liked A Kidney for Michelle on . Your "likes" mean the world to me. Here's an inspirational story of a near-stranger who gave the ultimate gift to someone. Cynthia Decker, a dialysis patient at Georgetown Hospital knew the odds of receiving a kidney. Nearly four in every five people at Georgetown who initially express interest in kidney donation change their minds before surgery. Yet, Toni Badinger expressed interest and followed through. Here's hoping and praying in 2016 my donor will come through too. God Bless.

A woman risked her own life for someone she barely knew.

12/17/2015

Interesting article on Larissa MacFarquhar and her book, "Strangers Drowning," on people who are committed to helping others. Her words on really struck us.

These people choose to give no matter the obstacles they may face from their doctors, families and friends. It gives us hope that Michelle's is out there. MPR News

Donate a kidney to a stranger. Give half your income to charity. Adopt 20 children. Larissa MacFarquhar's new book profiles people who can't help but be generous — even when others consider them crazy.

12/15/2015

Thanks to Stacie Farmer and her gift of organ donation, five people are now leading healthy lives.These stories always touch me. I hope to one day meet the person willing to donate a kidney to me. Donate Life America

Thank you, Fox 5 DC, for telling Stacie's story.

Twenty-one people die every day waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and every ten minutes, a new name is added to a waiting list for a new organ.

12/09/2015

Please share, and help me spread the word. Raising awareness of chronic kidney disease is an important part of this ongoing battle. National Kidney Foundation Inc NHS Organ Donation

12/02/2015

Please share. Raising awareness of chronic kidney disease is an important part of the battle. National Kidney Foundation Inc NHS Organ Donation