What is Living Kidney Donation? Living kidney donation is when someone healthy gives one of their kidneys to someone who needs it. Although most people have two kidneys, only one is needed to live a healthy life. In the U.S., about one-third of the people who need kidney transplants get them from living kidney donors. […]
Dialysis Nurse In 2005, I was fortunate to be hired as a nurse at an outpatient dialysis center. Throughout this journey of fifteen years, I have had a personal view of the difficulties for these patients. In order to live, they must attend dialysis three times per week, three to four hours per session. Depending […]
Having Your Donor Find YOU! is a video series that educates about kidney transplants and gives tools for a successful living kidney donor campaign. This new program helps overcome the primary obstacle of living donation — the thought of having to “ASK” someone to donate. Harvey Mysel, a 2-time living kidney transplant recipient and founder of Living Kidney Donors Network (LKDN), […]
Release Date: 6/19/2020 A rare inside look into Kidney Donor Conversations’s mother-daughter team, Glenna & Amanda Frey. This podcast contains personal information that has not previously been shared publicly. Listen to Glenna’s cancer story and struggle to donate her kidney. Learn why Amanda cannot donate her kidney, even though she wants to. Find out why […]
Glenna is a nurse and likes advocating for people. One of those people is her husband, Bob. Bob found out he had Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) when he was 17. He inherited this from his father. Bob was on hemodialysis and now has a living kidney transplant for over 18 years. He has lots of […]
What does it mean to be a nephrology nurse? Jill Green, Ph.D., Medical Science Liaison for Otsuka, interviews Glenna Frey, RN, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Kidney Donor Conversations. Take a peek inside Glenna’s personal life as a nephrology nurse. She discusses her early years on a transplant unit, her husband’s kidney disease, an important […]
I chose to give a gift of renewed life and health in a grand gesture of a selfless act. Well, I don’t consider it completely selfless. How and why did I become a living kidney donor? What were my motivations then and my circumstances now? What was the process like? While in my mind and […]
If you are like most people, the idea of donating your kidney is scary. Even if you are healthy, you have beliefs about what problems “could” happen during or after surgery. Many people are fearful of later health problems and the unknown. You are normal. There are risks. This is scary. Maybe there is also […]
There are 4 basic ways to be a living kidney donor and this is about Non-Directed Donation. Directed Paired Exchange Non-directed Advanced If you chose a specific person to give your kidney to, that is a Directed Donation. But what if you don’t know anyone on the transplant waiting list and still want to help? […]
What is happening with KDC right now? Glenna is a nurse and continues to work part-time at ProMedica Cancer Institute. She wears masks and other protective equipment in her Healing Care role, helping people cope with cancer using aromatherapy, guided imagery, relaxation breathing, and Healing Touch. She is very cautious when leaving home because her […]
