Toms River Man In Need of a Kidney Donor
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Polycystic kidney disease, an inherited condition that can lead to kidney failure, affects the 65-year-old Toms River resident, John Cusmano.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City declared him medically cleared for its living-donor transplant list last month. He's looking for a B or O blood type match. With so many kidney diseases in his family, he must seek outside assistance. This disease has taken the lives of five of his uncles and an older brother. Rick Cusmano of Lyndhurst received a transplant after his kidneys grew to weigh more than 30 pounds each due to cysts that ballooned and occasionally burst. It was like carrying four bowling balls.Nearly 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant, with a typical wait time of three to five years. In the meantime, life has been put on hold.
He's enlisted the help of the Flood Sisters Kidney Foundation, a New York-based charity that assists people in need of kidney transplants.
If you want to potentially save a life by donating a healthy kidney, visit the foundation's website HERECurrent Kidney Patients
Flood Sisters Kidney Foundation helps saves lives by matching patients in need with living kidney donors nationally. Click Here to get information on how to help those including John that are in need of a kidney donor.
