The best gift ever- Woman shares a kidney to help her ailing sister
Mining Journal | Renee Prusi
Photo: Michelle Myotte Mulder, left, said she’s getting the best Christmas present ever â€" a kidney. After waiting more than three years, Mulder, 33, is scheduled to receive a kidney from her younger sister Carrie Myotte, right. The operation is set for Dec. 19. (Photo courtesy of Michelle Mulder)
MARQUETTE - Ishpeming resident Michelle Myotte Mulder said she's getting the best Christmas present ever.
A kidney.
After more than three long years of waiting, Mulder, 33, is scheduled to receive a kidney from a most special donor, her younger sister Carrie, 30, in transplant surgery scheduled at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison Dec. 19.
"How do I feel? It's almost indescribable," Mulder said. "I want to be excited, but there's still a chance, up to the date of the surgery, that it could be stopped. I don't want to crash if that happens. It would be awful to be that close and have something go wrong. There's so much involved and everything has to be just right."
Mulder, who was featured in The Mining Journal's Organ Donation series in April 2011, has been undergoing dialysis three times a week for years as she waited for a match. Since she was a teen, Mulder has faced a number of health challenges, including lupus diagnosed when she was a senior in high school in 1997. She was diagnosed with thrombotic thrombopenic purpura, a blood disorder, in 2005, then the other ailments on her list includes having: an Adam 13 gene, which is what caused the TTP; rheumatoid arthritis; and Reynaud's syndrome, which is a circulatory system condition that causes extreme sensitivity to cold and heat.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Photo: Michelle Myotte Mulder, left, said she’s getting the best Christmas present ever â€" a kidney. After waiting more than three years, Mulder, 33, is scheduled to receive a kidney from her younger sister Carrie Myotte, right. The operation is set for Dec. 19. (Photo courtesy of Michelle Mulder)
MARQUETTE - Ishpeming resident Michelle Myotte Mulder said she's getting the best Christmas present ever.
A kidney.
After more than three long years of waiting, Mulder, 33, is scheduled to receive a kidney from a most special donor, her younger sister Carrie, 30, in transplant surgery scheduled at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison Dec. 19.
"How do I feel? It's almost indescribable," Mulder said. "I want to be excited, but there's still a chance, up to the date of the surgery, that it could be stopped. I don't want to crash if that happens. It would be awful to be that close and have something go wrong. There's so much involved and everything has to be just right."
Mulder, who was featured in The Mining Journal's Organ Donation series in April 2011, has been undergoing dialysis three times a week for years as she waited for a match. Since she was a teen, Mulder has faced a number of health challenges, including lupus diagnosed when she was a senior in high school in 1997. She was diagnosed with thrombotic thrombopenic purpura, a blood disorder, in 2005, then the other ailments on her list includes having: an Adam 13 gene, which is what caused the TTP; rheumatoid arthritis; and Reynaud's syndrome, which is a circulatory system condition that causes extreme sensitivity to cold and heat.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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