Help Save My Life Just by Sharing this Post:
Dialysis has kept me alive for the past 5 years, but that can go on for only so long.
I need an angel to step forward to save my life by donating a kidney (any blood type through direct donation, paired kidney transplant or kidney transplant chain by cooperation of the Mayo Clinic and the National Kidney Registry).
Donate a kidney? Tall order. I know. It's a big ask. So I'm not asking. But I am asking for help in another way. All I am asking is that you share this post. Even if you can't be a donor, you can be a donor-finder simply by sharing this post or my URL (Kidney2Rob.com). Join my team of people sharing posts to save my life.
Sharing
this Facebook post (or my website address) with a short message on
Facebook, Twitter or any other social medium mentioning "Kidney2Rob.com" can help me reach that person who would consider being my donor.
can greatly increase my chances.
About Me: I am a structural pipe salesman. The roller coaster on top of "New York, New York" hotel in Las Vegas was built with structural pipe that I sold. I love my job but I can work at it now only now and then. I'd like to return to full-time work as soon as possible.
About Kidney Transplant: These Mayo Clinic videos provide information you might want to know about kidney transplantation:
A Non-Directed Kidney Donor Shares His Experience
Please give me a few minutes to tell the world about my need and this website (Kidney2Rob.com).
Why this is So Serious - My Options: Most people have two well-functioning kidneys but can lead a full and equally healthy life with just one kidney. Both of his kidneys are almost fully shut down. So, I have only two options:
Paired Kidney Exchange: My hospital, the Mayo Clinic, is a world-renowned medical center and a leader in medical research, practice and teaching. I am approved for transplant there. And, through arrangements with 85 other hospitals, a donor can donate from anywhere in the U.S. (through the National Kidney Registry Kidney Transplant Chain protocol). One kidney donation can enable my transplantation plus many more. Mayo Clinic kidney transplant teams in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota are leaders in living-donor kidney transplants.
With a chain, if an incompatible donor for me wants to donate their kidney, my donor's kidney would be implanted in another recipient and I would receive the kidney of someone else's donor. Here's how that works:
More optimum matches are created that way even when a donor's kidney is incompatible with the person intended to be benefited as long as it is compatible with with another recipient in the chain. That saves two or more lives. Sometimes, chains of donors and recipients are organized to save more than two lives.
Why Choose the Mayo Clinic
Kidney Paired Donation for a Better Match
Video
To Speak with Someone Confidentially: If
you'd like to speak with someone confidentially (without disclosing
your inquiry to me), please call:
They will not inform me of inquiries. I will learn about a donor only after that donor has completed testing and is approved for transplant.
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- Save my Life
I
am Rob Fritz and I need a someone to save my life. I need a kidney to live. Not
necessarily your kidney, but someone's. You can help me simply by
sharing this post on FaceBook and elsewhere. Together we can find that
angel willing to do the extraordinary by giving the gift of life to save
my life.
Why I Need a Kidney: I have
end-stage renal failure due to a genetic problem (Polycystic Kidney Disease or "PKD"). PKD has already killed my father Robert, my uncle William and my grandfather John. but it won't get me if I can have a kidney transplant in time.
This is me with Murphy
My Family
Dialysis has kept me alive for the past 5 years, but that can go on for only so long.
I need an angel to step forward to save my life by donating a kidney (any blood type through direct donation, paired kidney transplant or kidney transplant chain by cooperation of the Mayo Clinic and the National Kidney Registry).
Donate a kidney? Tall order. I know. It's a big ask. So I'm not asking. But I am asking for help in another way. All I am asking is that you share this post. Even if you can't be a donor, you can be a donor-finder simply by sharing this post or my URL (Kidney2Rob.com). Join my team of people sharing posts to save my life.
Murphy and me
can greatly increase my chances. About Me: I am a structural pipe salesman. The roller coaster on top of "New York, New York" hotel in Las Vegas was built with structural pipe that I sold. I love my job but I can work at it now only now and then. I'd like to return to full-time work as soon as possible.
I am single with no children, but I love helping kids. For years I volunteered as a coach for our local grade school boys basketball team and our high school girls basketball team.
My
wish is to return to good health with a healthy transplanted kidney so that I can continue enjoying my life and my
work and paying it forward for others.
Sharing this website could help save my life and enable me to fulfill that possibility.
Sharing this website could help save my life and enable me to fulfill that possibility.
About Kidney Transplant: These Mayo Clinic videos provide information you might want to know about kidney transplantation:
About the Mayo Clinic
A Non-Directed Kidney Donor Shares His Experience
How to Help Me:
Please give me a few minutes to tell the world about my need and this website (Kidney2Rob.com).
- Email: Send this website to your friends (all of them) by email.
- Facebook: Post a small note on Facebook with a link to this website (icon above).
- LinkedIn: Post a small note on LinkedIn with a link to this website (icon above).
- Other Social Media Sites: Post a small note with a link to this website (icons below).
Ask your contacts, readers, friends and acquaintances to share this post to give our message exponential distribution.
Why this is So Serious - My Options: Most people have two well-functioning kidneys but can lead a full and equally healthy life with just one kidney. Both of his kidneys are almost fully shut down. So, I have only two options:
- continued dialysis (diminshed quality of life, but I've already been on it for 5 years)
- transplant (an entirely new lease on life)
According to USRDS data, Kidney transplant recipients fare far better
than dialysis patients.
With a chain, if an incompatible donor for me wants to donate their kidney, my donor's kidney would be implanted in another recipient and I would receive the kidney of someone else's donor. Here's how that works:
Kidney Transplant Chain
More optimum matches are created that way even when a donor's kidney is incompatible with the person intended to be benefited as long as it is compatible with with another recipient in the chain. That saves two or more lives. Sometimes, chains of donors and recipients are organized to save more than two lives.
On Paired Kidney Exchange
and Kidney Transplant Chains
and Kidney Transplant Chains
Why Choose the Mayo Clinic
Kidney Paired Donation for a Better Match
Video
Donor Coordinator
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
866-249-8438
(mention my name, Rob Fritz)
(mention my name, Rob Fritz)
They will not inform me of inquiries. I will learn about a donor only after that donor has completed testing and is approved for transplant.
And, speaking
with a staff member is much better than speaking with us. They know
far more than we do and you will get better information from them. So
please, feel free to contact them, even if you're just curious.
Keep in mind that a confidential phone call to the hospital does not come with any obligations to proceed further. Your questions will be answered by a qualified person who is familiar with my case.
Ned Brooks, Kidney Donor
Founder of Donor to Donor
Help Me by Sharing. Unfortunately, "Likes" are Not Enough:
And, you can complete a brief Donor Interest Form to indicate your possible interest in
kidney donation through which I can receive a compatible kidney and another person in the chain could receive yours.
So, please help us by actually sharing this post with your Facebook and other friends. Shares. I need Shares on Facebook.
Together, we can do this. Sharing this post could help me immensely. You could save my life.
Thank you,
Rob Fritz
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About Costs: Reasonable cost reimbursement is legal. Title III of The National Organ Transplant Act, 1984, Pub. L. 998-507, allows for reasonable payments associated with the removal, transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage of human organs as well as for the expenses of travel, housing, and lost wages incurred by the donor of a human organ in connection with the donation of that organ. While reimbursement of expenses is legal, payment for the acquisition of an organ is not.
In addition, our medical insurance covers the costs of medical care and hospitalization for the donor as well as for the recipient.
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Note: Ellis Mirsky is a practicing attorney (MirskyLaw.com), a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation, and a kidney transplant recipient since July 19, 2017. Cheri Ruane is a Boston area landscape architect and Ellis' kidney donor. Ned Brooks, is a non-directed kidney donor who founded and operates Donor To Donor, a not-for-profit organization that works to increase awareness about kidney donation.
We and others work to help kidney patients find donors and to increase awareness of the need for kidney donation. We self-fund all of our volunteer work; we never charge for any service; and we seek no funding whatsoever.
Together, we can do this. Sharing this post could help me immensely. You could save my life.
Rob Fritz
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About Costs: Reasonable cost reimbursement is legal. Title III of The National Organ Transplant Act, 1984, Pub. L. 998-507, allows for reasonable payments associated with the removal, transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage of human organs as well as for the expenses of travel, housing, and lost wages incurred by the donor of a human organ in connection with the donation of that organ. While reimbursement of expenses is legal, payment for the acquisition of an organ is not.
In addition, our medical insurance covers the costs of medical care and hospitalization for the donor as well as for the recipient.
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Note: Ellis Mirsky is a practicing attorney (MirskyLaw.com), a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation, and a kidney transplant recipient since July 19, 2017. Cheri Ruane is a Boston area landscape architect and Ellis' kidney donor. Ned Brooks, is a non-directed kidney donor who founded and operates Donor To Donor, a not-for-profit organization that works to increase awareness about kidney donation.
We and others work to help kidney patients find donors and to increase awareness of the need for kidney donation. We self-fund all of our volunteer work; we never charge for any service; and we seek no funding whatsoever.
