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Danielle Roy started feeling ailing throughout her birthday dinner with household, with no inkling of how totally different her life was about to turn into.
The St. Charles Parish native and Destrehan Excessive alum had at all times been wholesome, her common checkups on the physician by no means yielding something of main concern. However that evening she felt one thing was very incorrect and it spurred her to an emergency room go to to be checked out.
“They observed one thing wasn’t proper, so we went to the hospital,” mentioned Roy’s mom, Ellie Rodrigue.
The scans got here again with a scary outcome – Roy’s kidneys had shut down.
After a month within the hospital, Roy, 33, started present process dialysis thrice per week. But it surely wasn’t sufficient to return her to well being, and lately she was instructed she would wish a brand new kidney – and that her greatest likelihood can be to hunt out a dwelling donor.
Whereas Roy is on a ready record to obtain a kidney donation, it may very well be years earlier than she receives one. It’s a tough place to be in, and Roy and her household weren’t positive the place to begin.
“She’s posted issues on Fb and bought it on the market, nevertheless it isn’t simple,” Rodrigue mentioned. “Her medical insurance can pay for a potential’s testing.”
“Ochsner has a web site the place you’ll be able to go (ochsnerlivingdonor.org), put her title in it, and well being info and it’ll decide for those who qualify.
“I can’t donate as a result of she wants to seek out somebody of their 40’s or youthful. Now we have different kin who’re both older than that or have diabetes, different well being points or younger youngsters of their very own. No person actually is aware of how lengthy it might take to attend on the record. Folks aren’t donating like they used to,” Rodrigue mentioned.
Roy ‘s blood sort is A positive- her donor might be blood sort A or O , optimistic or adverse.
Alongside the best way to discovering that donor, Roy’s needed to leap the various hurdles that include the state of affairs, all of the whereas parenting her 4-year-old daughter.
“The despair round it,” Rodrigue mentioned. “The uncertainty. It’s simply actually onerous… she’s attempting to work at a job she likes to make sufficient hours for her medical insurance.”
Roy has at all times had an enormous coronary heart. Rodrigue mentioned her daughter loves youngsters and has routinely volunteered and labored at faculties and summer time camps in her life. She additionally took care of her grandmothers, after they wanted assist with their every day dwelling whereas in highschool and school.
“One in every of her grandmother’s would name her her little nurse,” Rodrigue mentioned. “She would take her paternal grandmother out to eat, get her nails achieved and drive her the place she wanted to go when she might now not drive. She at all times loved serving to others.”
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