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Friday, March 9, 2012

Mike Saylor, Kidney Recipient and Tim Clark, Living Kidney Donor

Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks-Trust for Life
My husband, Mike Saylor and Tim Clark first meet at Trinity High School freshman football practice in 1979. Years later, we never imagined how our lives would intersect.

In the beginning of 2009, my husband was totally healthy. Suddenly, in February, he was diagnosed in end stage renal failure. They called it IgA Nephropathy, a rare kidney disease that attacks the immune system. Mayo Clinic had a treatment plan to keep Mike going but eventually, that quit working. We knew a transplant was our only hope. We put the word out that he needed a kidney.

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