When the Beattie family of Superior takes part in Saturday’s Kidney Walk in Duluth in honor of 18-month-old Jackson Beattie, a group is doing the same in Afghanistan.
When the Beattie family of Superior takes part in Saturday’s Kidney Walk in Duluth in honor of 18-month-old Jackson Beattie, a group is doing the same in Afghanistan.
Jackson was born with kidney damage and — despite four operations and constant medications — he needs a new kidney as soon as possible.
But finding a donor for Jackson is proving difficult. Perhaps only 8 in every 100 potential donors are a close enough match to Jackson that his body wouldn’t reject their donated organ. Two matching donors were found recently, but then Jackson’s antibodies went out of control and those donors are no longer matches.
“As soon as they find a donor they want to transplant him, because he will be as healthy as he can be,” Jackson’s mother, Sara Beattie, said Tuesday. “The medications he’s on are keeping his kidneys functioning just enough to do their job.”
“We walk to raise money in hopes research someday will save our son,” Sara Beattie said of her family’s team — Keepin’ It Renal. “We walk to educate others so they can avoid this horrible disease. And we walk to support organ donation because without this piece our son wouldn’t be given another opportunity at life.”
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