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“I had one thing to sit up for. Now I don’t have something to sit up for.”

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Saskatoon resident Jessica Bailey, who has been waiting years for a kidney transplant from a live donor, sits for a photo at her home on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021.
Saskatoon resident Jessica Bailey, who has been ready years for a kidney transplant from a dwell donor, sits for a photograph at her residence on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. Photograph by Michelle Berg /Saskatoon StarPhoenix

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Jessica Bailey anticipated a telephone name final week that may have modified her life.

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As a substitute, the Saskatoon girl is at midnight about when she’ll get a life-saving kidney donation because the fourth wave of COVID-19 hammers Saskatchewan’s well being system.

“I had one thing to sit up for. Now I don’t have something to sit up for,” Bailey mentioned. “You begin making a listing of stuff you’re going to do once you get your life again.”

The stage was set for Bailey to obtain a kidney from longtime good friend Jason Anderson, who lives in Vancouver. After months of exams confirming his suitability as a donor, Bailey was anticipating a name to lastly set a surgical procedure date.

Then Saskatchewan suspended organ donations and cancelled elective surgeries so it may divert workers to deal with rising numbers of COVID-19 sufferers. Bailey hasn’t acquired solutions about what which means for her dwell kidney transplant. The Saskatchewan Well being Authority has not but responded to a query despatched Wednesday morning about whether or not such procedures proceed.

“I simply hold sort of getting deflected and dodged for solutions in a roundabout method … It’s actually irritating as somebody who simply received their transplant ripped out from beneath them,” she mentioned.

Bailey was hoping for a call last week to set a date for her kidney transplant.
Bailey hoped for a name final week to set a date for her kidney transplant. Photograph by Michelle Berg /Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Anderson remembers volunteering as quickly as he knew Bailey wanted a kidney donor. He and his spouse contemplate her one in all their dearest associates.

“I informed her instantly that I used to be going to be the one which was going to donate it to her,” Anderson mentioned. “I already knew. It wasn’t even a query at that time. It was a matter of when.”

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By “one in one million odds,” Anderson mentioned, he and Bailey had appropriate blood sorts. They began a months-long technique of preparation. At one level, Anderson despatched eight vials of his blood to Saskatchewan for testing — however they ended up within the flawed place. He despatched eight extra.

The most recent hurdle was getting a picture of his kidney to a surgeon in Saskatchewan, which concerned sending an encrypted USB drive over the Rockies. Then Anderson received a telephone name from his Saskatchewan coordinator.

“She was really in tears, saying they’d closed down the division due to COVID and that she was being positioned in ICU as a consequence of COVID, and that the USB was on her desk ready for the surgeon to have a look at. That was the final I heard,” Anderson mentioned.

His hope now’s that he can ship his kidney to Saskatchewan or that Bailey can come to B.C. for the process.

“It’s mentally draining to look at one in all your finest associates undergo needlessly when this might have been expedited,” Anderson mentioned.

The SHA says the equal of 500 full-time health-care workers are being diverted to fulfill surge wants within the province’s hospitals for COVID-19 sufferers.

Bailey mentioned she’s in ache day by day from the dialysis therapies protecting her alive. A surgical procedure date would not less than give her mild on the finish of the tunnel.

“It appears to me it shouldn’t take lengthy once you’ve just about received all of the geese within the row,” she mentioned.

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