07/07/2023
Thank you to everyone that has been tested and has offered continued support as we try to find Mark a kidney donor.
Mark is listed at Tampa General Hospital and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. Moving forward, anyone interested in donating will be directed to the Mayo Clinic donor program since they have a larger program. Please go to mayoclinic.org/livingdonor to get started.
If you applied to be a donor for Mark through Tampa General and were told you did not match, please consider applying through Mayo Clinic. They have a large living paired kidney exchange program. This means you do not need to match Mark. It does not matter your blood type or antibodies for this program. They pair up other potential donors and patients needing a kidney so that more matches are made. This means you would help more than one person get a kidney transplant!
Also, all costs associated with testing and time off work to recover from the procedure would be taken care of. It will not cost anything to be Mark's donor!
In one of the largest living-donor kidney transplant programs in the United States, Mayo Clinic specialists have extensive experience with living donation.
