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By writer to www.pennlive.com

MUNCY — A Lycoming County girl with Stage 5 kidney illness says being instructed by Geisinger she wouldn’t qualify for a transplant as a result of she wouldn’t get vaccinated for COVID-19 could have been a blessing in disguise.

“I’m in a a lot better place,” Sherry Eyer Breen, 40, of Muncy mentioned Friday.

She mentioned she now has appointments with 4 Pennsylvania transplant facilities, all of whom say they don’t require her to get the COVID-19 pictures.

The primary appointment is Thursday on the Hospital of the College of Pennsylvania Transplant Heart, she mentioned. The others are all scheduled earlier than Dec. 22.

Breen waited almost seven years to make it to the highest of Geisinger’s kidney transplant record before being told she did not qualify because she refused the vaccine.

“I felt just like the carpet was ripped out below my ft,” she mentioned.

She had accomplished every little thing Geisinger had requested, she mentioned, including, “I labored actually exhausting for it.”

She mentioned she’s been instructed she’s on Geisinger’s inactive record however can be returned to energetic standing if the vaccination requirement is dropped.

Within the meantime, she can be on the lists of the opposite 4 facilities, to which she was referred by Geisinger. That, she mentioned, may make it simpler to discover a kidney.

She credit Dr. Maria Bermudez, her kidney physician at Geisinger, with making that occur. “She’s been fantastic,” she mentioned.

The preparatory work accomplished at Geisinger will forestall her from going to the underside of the transplant record on the different facilities, Breen mentioned.

Though she has O-positive blood, it’s tough discovering a match as a result of her physique has constructed up immunities from therapies for different well being points, she defined.

A tick chew in 2000 resulted in her coming down with Lyme illness and babesiosis, which is an an infection of the crimson blood cells.

She was handled with anti-biotics for 18 months, throughout which era she has skilled liver failure, coronary heart points, blood clots, three failed pregnancies and the lack of listening to in her left ear.

Breen was in pretty good well being between 2005 and 2013, when she was identified with Stage three kidney illness.

She was instructed it could be years earlier than she would require dialysis however the illness progressed sooner than anticipated, she mentioned.

After feeling weak, Breen was examined in December 2015 and discovered it had superior to Stage 5.

She has been receiving dialysis 12 hours a day at dwelling since January 2016, more often than not when she is sleeping, she mentioned.

“It’s the closest factor to a transplant I can get,” she mentioned. She continues to work as an actual property agent, though “my schedule is a bit completely different” due to the dialysis, she mentioned.

When it got here to getting vaccinated for the coronavirus, Breen mentioned she was instructed to hold tight. After doing analysis on her scenario and the product, she mentioned she determined there was an excessive amount of threat concerned.

She contracted COVID-19 final November and he or she mentioned, “I’m nonetheless not absolutely again to regular. I’m nonetheless attempting to be healed.”

Her husband Andy and sons Ross, 16, and Stiles, 14, additionally had COVID-19 however nobody required hospitalization, she mentioned. That they had been vaccinated, she mentioned.

Regardless of her kidney scenario, Breen stays constructive. “I refuse to be actually bothered about this,” she mentioned. “Every day I get up I believe I’m right here one other day.”

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