Help Jessica Kahigian Overcome Medical Costs

My name is Christina and my sister is someone I have always looked up to. She is one of the kindest and strongest individuals that I know. At the age of 16, Jessica Kahigian received her first kidney transplant. I remember helping plan a welcome home party to celebrate her recovery with her family and close friends. So many people were there to cheer her on and show her their support during her recovery phase. To this day, Jess still exhibits enormous strength to carry on each day as she did 11 years ago.

Fast forward 13 years and my sister is in need of a second kidney transplant unfortunately due to COVID. We have reached out to the community to help us search for a living donor and we have set up this GoFundMe platform to help defer some of the medical costs she is currently undertaking. I continue to admire her strength as she lives independently, juggles a full-time job as well as dealing with the stress of waiting for a donor as her perfect match. Many of us take for granted dealing with some struggles of feeling run down along with common aches and pains here and there, but my sister battles with her health issues on a day-to-day basis. Jess never complains as she deals with so much more in addition to her on-going medical costs.

We are reaching out to you to consider donating to help alleviate the mounting medical bills Jessica is enduring. Reaching out to the community is not asked upon lightly and any donation would be greatly appreciated. However, if at this time you are unable to help out financially, spreading the word about finding a living donor for Jessica is equally important.

Please share Jess’s story with your friends and family in hopes that a living donor could be a kidney match for her. For more information on becoming a living donor for Jessica and staying up to date on Jessica’s kidney journey or to learn about the Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital Living Donation program, please join our Community Facebook page, Kidney 4 Jess.

https://m.facebook.com/61559585781265/

Again, thank you in advance for your support and donation.

Christina Kahigian