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Local Mother Seeking Kidney Donor
BAKERSFIELD -- -- For Jennifer Travis, everyday "around the house" activities for the past 4 years have been held hostage - by polysystic kidney disease.
Just over a month ago, the mother of 4 was forced to go to dialysis after both of her kidneys were removed. While a healthy kidney weighs about a pound, Travis had 2 kidneys - each weighing 13 pounds.
With 1 son off at college, and 3 others back at school, Travis needs all the help she can get around the house - especially considering the fact that the dialysis process takes up more than half of her week.
She's been on dialysis for a month now. Denied for social secuirty and disablity, Travis and her family survive on one income.
Doctors say she needs each of her football sized kidneys removed. The hereditary disease is found in every 400 to 1000 people in the United States, but doctors say this case is considered a local phenomenon.
With no way to properly flush her system, Travis not only lives in constant pain, but her everyday diet has been robbed away as well.
Prayers and hope are now what the Travis family needs for a living kidney donor. If a living kidney is not found, she'll be entered into national transplant list, where she may be forced to wait for several years.
If a living kidney is not possible, Travis would have to wait for a cadavar kidney.
If you would like to help the Travis family, a fund has been set up at the Kern Schools Federal Credit Union, under the Jennifer Travis Medical Expense Fund.
Anyone interested in possibly donating a kidney to Jennfer can contact Judith Smith at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, at (310) 423-4718.
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