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Photo is Jenna - after Disneyland - 1988

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« on: October 21, 2009, 11:30:07 PM »
After battling polycystic kidney disease her whole life, Quinn Roberts receives the gift of life on her eighth birthday, Sept. 29, 2009, thanks to a kind-hearted family friend and the transplant team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Photo below is of the comparison of the PKD kidney next to the new healthy kidney

More photos available here http://www.flickr.com/photos/43340281@N08/sets/72157622405488043/
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Admin for IHateDialysis 2008 - 2014, retired.
Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
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