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Chris Hayes needs a kidney

Chris has received a kidney transplant 5/29/24. 💚
Chris Hayes is searching for a live kidney donor. His blood type is A+~ A/O would be his match.

05/29/2025

Tomorrow is one year since Chris had his kidney transplant. As I sit here thinking about the night before, when we got “the call”, the emotions that come with it are just insane. Happy, excited, nervous, scared and sad. A young man lost his life, but saved at least one that we know of. I pray for him and his family daily and will be forever thankful he was an organ donor.
This last year has not been easy. Much like that night we got the call, we have had the same emotions since. We knew this wouldn’t be easy, but it sure beats dialysis. We have had many ups and downs, a few hospital stays, many medication changes, more bloodwork than you could possibly imagine, and lots and lots of praying.

Chris is doing well, feels great and is forever grateful for the gift of life, even though life looks a lot different than it did for him 5 years ago. It is so hard to feel as if everything is going to be ok and “normal”, we know it will be with time. This new life for Chris and our family has been an adjustment, but we are here for it!
Thank you to all our prayer warriors out there, keep them prayers coming.
Happy 1st year kidneyversary
Save lives!!
Be an organ donor!!

03/09/2025

Happy birthday to Chris!!!🥳🎂💚

12/11/2024

Finally got some great news. The test that detects rejection has come back very good. Better than it did 1 month after the transplant. So as of now NO rejection!!Yay!!!
Please continue to pray for Chris and his kidney to stay healthy. We still have a long way to go, but are very relieved right now and can enjoy Christmas…well from a distance for Chris. 💚🙏🏻

11/17/2024

Almost(less 2 weeks) 6 months post transplant update.
Not gonna lie…. These last 3 months have not been very good to Chris. 😩
He’s hanging in there and trying to be positive, but it’s been a lot. 🤯
In Sept he got C-diff💩, they put him antibiotics and that took care of it, so we thought, 2 weeks later he was positive again 💩, so he was admitted to the hospital, was fixed up and was good. 👍🏻

Oct 4 transplant team wanted a biopsy of his new kidney, because a test they do indicated possible rejection and they wanted to treat ASAP if that was the case and it was. 😫 He was in early rejection, so he was admitted for 5 days to pump meds to treat the rejection, that is totally reversible in early stages. The team thinks when he got c-diff, he had to back off some of his anti rejection medications and his immune system recognized the kidney and started to reject.

Thursday he had another biopsy for the same reason as last month. Unsure if it was still rejecting or if it was doing it again, but he is in the hospital yet again until Tuesday or Wednesday. 😭
They are going to be more aggressive this time to get everything working correctly. It also means he is very immunosuppressed again.😷
The transplant team is very proactive. He feels great and wouldn’t even have known anything was wrong if it wasn’t for his amazing team and all they do. His new kidney is still very healthy, his body just has to accept that it is his kidney now. 🥰

We would appreciate some prayers for him, his new bean, our family, and my sanity 🫣 as he is on a high dose of steroids that make him very hungry and crabby. 🦀

We had been warned that the first year post transplant could be a roller coaster🎢,
well we are ready to get off now and live a little normal life, whatever that is. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pic is our romantic dinner with a view over the city. 😆

08/29/2024

Chris is 3 months post transplant today. He is feeling healthy and blessed. There have been some side effects of the medication that he has had to work through, that is to be expected, as he has a foreign organ of an angel in his body and they just need to get used to each other.
Yesterday he had his first day back to work in the big truck. He had a good day and was ready to get back to his new normal.

07/10/2024

Today Chris is 6 weeks post transplant. He is doing great, feeling good and bloodwork is looking more like it should.
Hopefully today is the last time Chris has surgery for a long time, he got his pd dialysis catheter removed and the stent from the transplant removed. He is out of surgery and doing well. Should go home soon. The SLU transplant team has been absolutely amazing. 💚

06/01/2024

The kids get to hang out with Chris today. They got to hold his new kidney. 😂
So happy to have everyone in the same room.
He and his new kidney are doing great. 💚

05/30/2024

What a roller coaster kind of week this has been. After learning and then being on dialysis at home for only 3 nights, we got “the call” last night, that Chris would be receiving the gift of life. Today he received a kidney transplant. 🙌🏻💚
We ask for prayers for quick healing and recovery.
Also prayers for the family of the donor. ❤️‍🩹

05/22/2024

UPDATE: by the grace of God, Chris got the gift of life. 🙌🏻 He received a kidney transplant yesterday. He is doing great and the kidney is working well. 💚🙏🏻
Prayers for the donor’s family in their time of grief.
Donors save lives!!

Dialysis is needed for Chris.

The time has come. We managed to hold it off for a long time(2 1/2years).

We started our peritoneal dialysis training on Monday. He has received several exchanges already and is doing well. He is able to do it all himself(or I can too) and will start on Friday doing everything at home. He will start with 1 exchange everyday for 8 hours.

Chris is still in need of a kidney transplant. The shorter amount of time he is on dialysis the better.

If you or anyone you may know, would be willing to be tested to be a live kidney donor please reach out to
SSM Health SLU Hospital transplant coordinators
Heather Page 314-257-8334
or Cody Wooley
314-257-8310
Or
Short questionnaire for qualifying-
http://LivingDonorSLUH.org

For more info- http://SSMhealth.com/transplant

Note- all correspondence between you and the transplant coordinator are confidential. If you wish for us to know, you may reach out to us. This gives us hope and positivity, but not necessary.

05/07/2024

The Mayo Clinic has this visual for how a donor kidney is placed in the body. I am always amazed by all the information that needs to be known for Kidney Transplants.
Chris is still searching for a kidney donor.
Please share to find a donor for Chris.
Share your Spare!

03/31/2024

Happy Easter ✝️

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