Lives Were Saved Thanks to Donor Kidney on Facebook

News Health Articles - Lives Were Saved Thanks to Donor Kidney on Facebook. Facebook is the perfect tool to find old friends, new friends, even friends can save your life. Some people can stay alive and safe after getting a kidney donor who she found through Facebook.

Damon Brown (38 years) is one of the patients with kidney disease who tells her story on your Facebook page (Facebook page), which he named 'Damon Kidney'.



Father of two children looking for a donor kidney with blood type O. Because never get the right donor, Brown was writing his story at Facebook search for kidney donors.

Friends and family also help spread the news disseminated, until finally Jacqueline Ryall, a friend of Brown's wife volunteered to give his kidney.

"She (Jacqueline Ryall) say this is not just for me but for my children, because they deserve to have loving father," said Damon Brown, a native of Seattle, the UK, as reported by Dailymail, Tuesday (03/01/2012) .

A spokesman for United Network for Organ Sharing (private nonprofit organization that manages the U.S. organ transplant system), April Paschke, Brown said the story is not so unique and the only one, because some people also have a similar story.

"We see a lot of people who can match each other (including to the problem of donor kidneys) through social media. It is an extension of the way we communicate. Before finding the Internet, people find other ways such as through church bulletins, word of mouth or even advertising," April Paschke explained.

Years ago, a man in Michigan also find a donor kidney through a Facebook and a Florida woman found him through Craigslist forum.

Brown himself admitted to not ashamed to ask for help from the public. At that time, he was on official transplant list and has started a mobile dialysis through the Northwest Kidney Centers. But his health deteriorated, he was always tired and sick.

"I can not just sit in bed to tell her a bedtime story on Julian (5 years) and Theo (3 years), because I can not get away from the my dialysis engine," said Brown.

Brown has put itself on a long waiting list for a kidney from a deceased donor, but he must wait at least three years before he actually get a donor kidney.

After a very difficult consultation with doctors, Brown and his wife, Bethany, decided to create a Facebook page, which has attracted more than 1,400 friends.

A few weeks ago, after the transplant is approved and scheduled, Brown posted the good news to his friends on Facebook and more than 300 people responded with congratulations.