Local woman needs kidney
Columbia Basin Herald | Tiffany Sukola
Megan and Janet Dunnagan
Moses Lake resident Megan Dunnagan, left, has been on dialysis for about 12 years and needs a new kidney. Numerous donors have been tested over the years, but a match has yet to be found. She is pictured with her mother Janet Dunnagan, who donated a kidney to Megan when Megan was 2.
MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake resident Megan Dunnagan has a few things she would like to cross off her "bucket list" over the next few years.
Nothing extravagant, she said, just plans to train as a children's dialysis technician, become a foster mom and volunteer within her community - plans medical struggles have forced the 28-year-old to put on hold.
Dunnagan has been on dialysis for about 12 years. She currently spends three to four hours a day, five days a week doing in-home hemodialysis care.
Dunnagan said she is in desperate need of a new kidney. She and her family have been working to get her story out to various Eastern Washington communities in hopes of finding a donor.
They've placed ads in several newspapers and recently started a Facebook page, she said.
"They really want me to get this kidney so I can be free from dialysis, so I can live a normal life," Dunnagan said. "I want to live a normal life."
Moses Lake resident Megan Dunnagan, left, has been on dialysis for about 12 years and needs a new kidney. Numerous donors have been tested over the years, but a match has yet to be found. She is pictured with her mother Janet Dunnagan, who donated a kidney to Megan when Megan was 2.
MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake resident Megan Dunnagan has a few things she would like to cross off her "bucket list" over the next few years.
Nothing extravagant, she said, just plans to train as a children's dialysis technician, become a foster mom and volunteer within her community - plans medical struggles have forced the 28-year-old to put on hold.
Dunnagan has been on dialysis for about 12 years. She currently spends three to four hours a day, five days a week doing in-home hemodialysis care.
Dunnagan said she is in desperate need of a new kidney. She and her family have been working to get her story out to various Eastern Washington communities in hopes of finding a donor.
They've placed ads in several newspapers and recently started a Facebook page, she said.
"They really want me to get this kidney so I can be free from dialysis, so I can live a normal life," Dunnagan said. "I want to live a normal life."
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