Khadijah Sabir
You can help to save her life simply by sharing this post on Facebook or other social media. Together we can find that angel who is able to do the extraordinary by giving the gift of life to save our precious daughter.
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About Khadijah: Our 5th-grade student Khadijah is being kept alive through daily 10-hour dialysis treatments while she waits for a kidney donor. She has Glomerulonephritis and has been kept alive by dialysis each night, administered by me, her mom.
Her dialysis machine requires a semi-permanent abdominal catheter that restricts Khadijah from normal children's activities. Our family members are medically disqualified to donate.
Khadijah loves to ride her bike in the park but that will have to wait until she regains strength after transplant. She also loves reading, writing, drawing and making slime. She hopes someday to visit Disneyland and the Slime Factory in Florida.
We all need Khadijah to remain in our lives. And Khadijah desperately wants to live. We are hoping and praying that by sharing this website, an angel will be moved to step forward as a donor. All donor expenses* (medical, out of pocket, lost wages and the like) will be paid by insurance and by our family.
But to reach that donor, we need everyone's help simply by sharing this website.
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Share to Help Khadijah Right Now: Please take a few minutes to tell the world about Khadijah and this website:
- Email: Send this website to your friends by email.
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For Information about Kidney Donation:
To be connected with a professional at Weill Cornell with whom you can speak confidentially and without obligation please contact:
Marian Charlton
Chief Transplant Coordinator
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
525 East 58th Street, New York, NY
212-746-1742
or
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2. Read about being screened.
3. Online Form to be screened.
Donors Can be Located Anwhere: Donors can donate at any of more than 80 hospitals throughout the U.S. that participate in the National Kidney Registry.
A Donor's Motivation and Experience
Ned Brooks, Non-directed Kidney Donor
Founder of DonorToDonor.org
Founder of DonorToDonor.org
TEDx
Talk on His Experience as a Donor
What if A Prospective Donor is Not a Compatible Match? NYP-Weill Cornell has also long participated in kidney exchanges, also known as a “kidney swaps” or "kidney transplant chains," can occur when a living kidney donor is incompatible with the recipient but compatible with another patient. If an incompatible donor wants to donate their kidney for Khadijah and is willing to participate in a donor swap, that donor's kidney would be swapped with another patient's donor's kidney that is compatible with Khadijah, thereby saving two lives.
Kidney Swaps and Chains Explained
G. Tom Shires, M.D. Faculty Scholar in Surgery
Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College
Help Us by Sharing: Even if you’re not a potential donor yourself, someone among your Facebook (and other) friends (or among their friends) might be so please take a moment to share this post to the public.
Shares = action, and action is what our daughter needs now
Thank you,
Shaheena and Sajid Sabir
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*About Costs: Reasonable cost reimbursement is legal. Title III of The National Organ Transplant Act, 1984, Pub. L. 998-507, allows for reasonable payments associated with the removal, transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage of human organs as well as for the expenses of travel, housing, and lost wages incurred by the donor of a human organ in connection with the donation of that organ. While reimbursement of expenses is legal, payment for the acquisition of an organ is not. In addition, our medical insurance covers the costs of medical care and hospitalization for the donor as well as for the recipient.
