Rachel Found a Kidney Donor

Thank you for your interest.  We have great news to report.  Rachel found a living kidney donor - Perri Levine of Columbus, Ohio.

Read about it at https://www.columbusjewishnews.com/news/local_news/young-jewish-columbus-member-donates-kidney-to-jewish-stranger-performs/article_f2c408ca-8c8a-11e9-bda5-cba4afa6c90e.html.

Please Help Save Rachel’s Life By Sharing This Page

Our daughter Rachel (age 20) needs a kidney to live. Not necessarily your kidney, but someone’s.  You can help simply by sharing this Kidney4Rachel.com on Facebook and elsewhere.

Together we can find that angel able to do the extraordinary by giving the gift of life to save our daughter Rachel.

Rachel Schneider
(in off-white evening dress)
and Family

Rachel has end-stage renal failure.  With only 5% kidney function (GFR) remaining, and getting worse quickly, Rachel needs an angel to step forward to save her life by donating a kidney.  We know. It's a big ask.  So we are not asking you to donate.  But we are asking for your help in another way - please share this post – even if you're not a donor.  Sharing and re-sharing of your post and this website address (Kidney4Rachel.com) with a short message on Facebook or other social media can bring our need to the attention of someone who might consider becoming a donor.  

If you'd like to consider becoming a kidney donor, please complete this online donor questionnaire provided by NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. 
 
About Rachel: Rachel is a college student and swim instructor.  At age 15 Rachel was diagnosed with FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomeruloscierosis).  Until she finds a kidney donor, she needs a surgically implanted port in her chest for nightly dialysis treatments.  Swimming is on hold until she is able to return to her normal life after a kidney transplant.

Rachel and Paul Schneider

 

Gail and Rachel Schneider

 

We all need Rachel to remain in our lives.  And Rachel desperately wants to live.

We are hoping and praying that by you sharing this website, Kidney4Rachel.com, an angel somewhere out there 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. 

How to Help Rachel Right Now: 

Please take a few minutes to tell the world about Rachel and this website: 

• Email:  Send this website to your friends (all of them) by email. 
• Facebook:  Post a small public note on Facebook with a link to this website (icon above) and share it to public, not just your friends (so your friends' friends can see it). 
• LinkedIn:  Post a small note on LinkedIn with a link to this website.
• Other Social Media Sites:  Post a small note with a link to this website.

Ask your contacts, readers, friends, acquaintances, synagogues, churches, businesses to share this post  and Kidney4Rachel.com  to give our message exponential distribution. 

If You'd Like More Information:

For more information, see Columbia University Medical Center's "Becoming a Kidney Donor."

Lloyd E. Ratner, MD

New York Presbyterian-Columbia

If you'd like to consider becoming a kidney donor, please complete this online donor questionnaire provided by NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. 

Speak with Someone Confidentially and Without Obligation:  

Call New York Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Transplant Center. They will not disclose your inquiry to Rachel or her family. Please mention  Rachel Schneider when you call:

212-305-6469

Your questions will be answered by a qualified professional who is familiar with Rachel’s case.  Your confidential phone call will provide information only, without any obligation to proceed further.

A confidential phone call to NYP-Columbia (212-305-6469) does not come with any obligations to proceed further.

PLEASE HELP RACHEL BY SHARING THIS CALL-TO-ACTION
WITH YOUR OWN NETWORK OF FRIENDS

Shares = action, and action is what is needed now. Thank you

 Ned Brooks, Non-directed Kidney Donor

Founder of DonorToDonor.org

Delivers a TedX Talk on His Experience as a Donor

Request a Donor Questionnaire: If you'd like to consider becoming a kidney donor, please complete this online donor questionnaire provided by NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.

What if A Prospective Donor is Not a Compatible Match? Columbia’s Transplant Center has long participated in paired kidney exchanges.  A paired kidney exchange, also known as a “kidney swap,” occurs when a living kidney donor is incompatible with the recipient.  If an incompatible donor wants to donate their kidney for Rachel and is willing to participate in a donor swap, Rachel's donor's kidney would be swapped with another donor's kidney that is incompatible with their recipient but whose kidney is compatible with Rachel's body.  That saves two lives.

PLEASE HELP RACHEL BY SHARING THIS CALL-TO-ACTION

WITH YOUR OWN NETWORK OF FRIENDS

I NEED YOU!

TO SHARE THIS POST

Shares = action, and action is what is needed now. Thank You!

Help Us by Sharing: Even if you’re not a potential donor yourself, some good soul among your Facebook (and other) friends might be!  Please share this now. Do more than "like" or comment.  Likes and comments are the "hopes and prayers" of social media. Shares = action, the action needed here.  Together, we can do this.  Sharing this post could help Rachel immensely.  You could be the key to saving her life.  What a gift that would be.

Thank you,
Gail and Paul Schneider

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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.