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Port Washington mother, Vivian Jepp together with her triplet boys. (Picture courtesy of Vivian Jepp)

Vivian Jepp, a Port Washington mom of triplets, is desperately looking for a residing kidney donor after years of dialysis and a failed kidney transplant.
“I had joint ache, I couldn’t open doorways with my fingers anymore and had an evident butterfly rash,” Jepp stated.

She was recognized with systemic lupus 31 years in the past, when she was 21 years previous after graduating from faculty. Lupus is an inflammatory illness by which the immune system assaults its personal tissue and generally impacts a affected person’s joints, pores and skin and kidneys. The Lupus Basis of America states that lupus generally strikes girls of childbearing age. Ninety p.c of individuals residing with lupus are girls and principally develop the sickness between the ages of 15 to 44.

Jepp grew to become an elementary college instructor in New York Metropolis till her kidneys began to fail three years in the past. Although her sickness was managed with medicine, her kidneys started to deteriorate. She began dialysis 3 times every week for 4 hours a day. Dialysis has helped to take care of her sickness, however it’s carrying her physique down after so a few years of remedy. Her power ranges are usually not getting higher and she or he is susceptible to tiredness much more than the widespread particular person. Her lupus controls her blood pleasure, her phosphorus and potassium.

“It’s not straightforward, however I’ve discovered to deal with it,” Jepp stated.

She has three 8-year-old boys who’ve seen her by means of the years wrestle with sickness. Her youngsters are what drive her to proceed the arduous battle together with her sickness.

“My youngsters see me after I go take my blood strain or with bandages, going to dialysis each week,” Jepp stated. “More often than not, I’m laying down, however that’s simply our life now.”
Jepp’s older sister, Marina Vlahos, needs her sister to have the ability to create new recollections and experiences together with her nephews.

“Though Vivian’s life will not be straightforward, I need her to have the ability to get pleasure from being the mother she is for her boys, she is at all times making an attempt her greatest to be there for them,” Vlahos stated.

She describes her youthful sister as somebody she seems to be as much as and hopes all the great that Jepp has given to the world comes again to her in the future as she is “the bravest particular person with the most important coronary heart of anybody that she is aware of.”

Jepp might not survive the four-plus further years on the waitlist for a deceased donor. Her greatest hope is a residing kidney donation from an eligible donor. Family and friends have inspired Jepp to go public and share her pressing necessity for a residing donation as her survival depends upon it.

“I look as much as Vivian, though she is the youngest, her spirit is unwavering and her energy makes her such a constructive particular person,” Vlahos stated.

Jepp, at all times embarrassed to ask for assist, was given newly discovered hope when a mutual buddy linked her with Rhoda Schneider.

“Rhoda got here into my life solely three weeks in the past and has lit a fireplace in everybody,” Jepp stated. “She is wonderful together with her staff and the phrase is spreading to so many individuals.”

Schneider donated her kidney to her husband 20 years in the past and has since been serving to these in want of a kidney transplant due to her private expertise and try for advocacy.

“After donating, I quickly discovered that others are usually not privileged to the knowledge readily given and out there to me,” Schneider stated. “I’ve been serving to residing donors donate and recipients to search out residing donors for the previous 17 years.”

A residing donation is a voluntary donation of 1 kidney from somebody able to doing so and a direct approach to assist save somebody’s life. Donors are examined totally to make sure and facilitate a wholesome consequence for each the donor and the recipient. All medical bills, journey and lodge lodging can be lined by the group.

Thereafter, a staff of residing kidney donors and recipients referred to as Residing Donation was fashioned to unfold the message, “Residing Donors, Unfold Lives.” The message is spreading throughout to assist Jepp and others discover a donor, in addition to to extend consciousness on the trigger. The kidney donation course of takes time and usually three out of each 4 donor candidates are usually not certified to donate. The search persists till there’s a possible candidate in a position to donate. A lot of Jepp’s members of the family and buddies can’t donate due to well being causes and easily don’t qualify as donors. She wants to search out an satisfactory residing kidney donor match of blood sort A or O.

The Weill Cornell Drugs and New York-Presbyterian kidney and pancreas transplant program intention is to maximise alternatives for transplantation for all sufferers who seek for care and experience. The Weill Cornell Drugs will decide the suitability of potential donors for Jepp.

Vlahos stated individuals are spreading the phrase inside the Port Washington group, as many have been contacting the household about all the donation course of and serving to in any approach they will. Jepp’s Fb web page has reached different states all through the nation and has even been shared in Mexico.

“Occasions have modified and there may be rather more data on the market,” Schneider stated. “I hope that dialysis sufferers will know that there’s an alternative choice, which is discovering a residing donor.”

Residing donor kidneys perform extra effectively and last more than deceased donor organs. Nevertheless, changing into a residing donor is a giant choice which requires cautious consideration. Roughly, 63 p.c of People have by no means heard of lupus or know little to nothing concerning the illness. The signs are tough to pinpoint for the widespread eye, making consciousness and training important.

“Many individuals are being educated concerning the scarcity of kidneys and the potential of residing donations,” Jepp stated. “That’s factor for the numerous people who find themselves additionally in my place.”

For additional data on kidney donation, contact NYP Cornell at 212-746-3922 or go to www.cornell.donorscreen.org. To be taught extra about Residing Donation, go to www.lkdn.org. To be taught extra about Vivian Jepp, go to her Fb web page fb.com/TripletMomNeedsKidney or e mail TripletMomNeedsKidney@aol.com.

— to portwashington-news.com

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