{"id":484,"date":"2021-11-19T04:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/excellencetakeseffort.com\/wp\/?p=484"},"modified":"2021-11-19T04:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T09:54:59","slug":"a-man-with-an-8-year-old-child-needs-a-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eddraves.com\/wp\/a-man-with-an-8-year-old-child-needs-a-kidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Always look for opportunities to help"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday and found a local story about a person who needed a Kidney and was looking for a living donor. As I was reading the comments, one struck me<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Christopher Hejza\u00a0 “<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>Hope she gets one..as well as myself need one…”<\/p>\n

I reached out to Christopher and offered to share his story . Here is his reply: “that’s very nice of you…my story is to long,meaning I been dealing w this kidney failure since I been 19, ism 40 now..I had a transplant in 2004 lasted 9 years been back on dialysis sine..but in-between I been in out hospital been mercy flighted ,in a coma ,broke both my knees cause of my bones being so weak ,cause of this illness..but I keep my head up and keep pushing..I got a 8 year old son I need to raise and to be a dad still what keeps me going”<\/p>\n

I don’t know Christopher, I probably never will but I’ve had an 8 year old (2 actually) that needed raising and know how important a dad can be in a kids life. I know what it is to need anthers help and I Pray for God to put me in a position to help others. I’m a living donor myself and I had a very positive experience -gave on a Friday, mall walked on Monday!! (and my labs show full “NORMAL” kidney function!!)<\/p>\n

Please reach out to Christopher for more information christopherhejza465@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Here is a link to the original story\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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I been in out hospital been mercy flighted ,in a coma ,broke both my knees cause of my bones being so weak ,cause of this illness..but I keep my head up and keep pushing..I got a 8 year old son I need to raise and to be a dad still what keeps me going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38,6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-in-the-news","category-kidney-donation"],"yoast_head":"\nAlways look for opportunities to help - 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