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Living Donor 101 is a website dedicated to providing comprehensive information related to living organ donation, as well as support and advocacy for living donors. LD101 covers the entire living donor experience, and strives to be a reference point for prospective and current kidney and liver donors, as well as living donor families, loved ones and those interested in living donation-related issues.

• Facts and Myths of living donation, and all U.S. laws pertaining to living donation and living donors.
• The truth about the organ transplant waitlist.
• Explore the reasons people contemplate becoming a living organ donor.
Living donor expenses, bills and insurance-related issues.
• Guidance on choosing a transplant center and surgeon.

 

• The Risks and Consequences of being a living kidney donor, including possible post-operative complications. Available research data has been compiled so an informed decision can be made regarding living donation. Current living kidney donors will find the information valuable in assessing their own health and well-being.

 

• Exploring Live Liver Donation, what to know about liver donor deaths, and complications.
• Living liver donor graft survival and the all-important liver MELD score.

 

• What to expect post-surgery, physically and emotionally.
• It's natural to experience grief. Recognizing disenfranchised grief, and traumatic and complicated grief.
• Many living donors experience depression, anger, anxiety and PTSD-like symptoms post-living donation, but transplant centers offer no support services or aftercare. Unfortunately there seem to be no community support groups either.

[Note: if you know of a living donor support group, please let us know]

 

• Ways to maintain your health with lifestyle changes, and protect the remaining kidney from damage and disease.

 

• The importance of full and true Informed Consent.
• The need for a Living Donor Registry.

 

• Want to help? Let's talk Living Donor Advocacy. Here's a list of the lawmakers and public policy officials who responsible for the rules governing the US transplant system, including living donation.
• Also, we're accepting donations to help us become a nonprofit organization. Click here to learn more about how this will help us provide services to more living donors.

 

 

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