Support Denise Riley-Mitchell - 2024 AKF Kidney Walk & Celebration Patient Walk Chair & Team D' Jazz Captain
I'm soliciting your financial support for Kidney Walk 2024. Your donations will assist individuals with this disease with dialysis support, transportation, medication, and household needs. In the past, I have always supported the Kidney Walk, not knowing that my life ahead would soon turn in a direction that would cause me to suffer from Kidney failure. I want to tell you why I'm soliciting your support. In January 2021, I was placed on dialysis, which changed my life and those around me. During this time, I knew that it was God's Grace that I would need, along with support from family and friends. Due to not wanting many to see, I kept this secret amongst a few family members. I continued to work and do my daily activities, not alerting anyone to many of my conditions throughout the process. Through much travel, appointments, medications, and sickness, I asked God many times why me. However, I never gave up, and I was determined to see it through. Only two were to be tested for a match throughout this process, one being my daughter Jasmine. It moved me so much when Jasmine said, momma, I'll get tested. Later, we received information that Jasmine was a match but not a tissue match. Jasmine was adamant about finding a solution, so doctors suggested we participate in the Paired Kidney Exchange Program. In contrast, Jasmine would donate her kidney to someone else for me to find a donor. Finally, on Friday, July 30, 2021, my birthday, I received the news from my daughter Jasmine that we had a match. And I say 'we' because after numerous testing’s, to find out that our tissues did not match, it was nothing "BUT GOD" that delivered us through this. And yes, on August 25, 2021, four people had surgery that day, and we are all now a living organ family, although we have never met one another before.
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