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How You Can Make a Difference: 

-Share this post to spread Rod's story worldwide.

-Donate to the GoFundMe to ease Rod's overwhelming medical bills. 

-Consider becoming a donor or encouraging potential matches. Your support matters and can bring hope to Rod's journey!

I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease at the age of 15 and stayed on Dialysis for about 5 years, until I received a kidney transplant on November 28th, 2000. One year later, I returned to the same kidney dialysis clinic, in which I was given treatment as a patient, but this time I came back to apply for a dialysis technician position. The clinical manager of the unit, who had previously been my nurse, hired me the very same day. I worked at the dialysis unit for a little over a year, until our unit needed help with staffing and hired travel nurses to help with our lack of staffing. As I met the nurses they eventually heard about my story and suggested that I travel with their company as a dialysis technician to service dialysis patients with Dialysis treatments all over the United States. I started my dialysis travel technician career in 2001. I traveled for several different dialysis travel agencies for over 20 years, across the United States, helping hundreds of thousands dialysis patients. I was later given the opportunity to work as a dialysis travel nurse recruiting consultant, that writes travel contracts for dialysis nurses and technicians who service Dialysis clinics, hospitals, and companies, as I once did for many years. It was an amazing journey of life from the age of 15 to now at age 44. I am currently still a Dialysis Travel Recruiter for AHS RENALSTAT Dialysis Staffing, with a 22-year old kidney transplant.

As of now, my kidney transplant has began to fail after 22 years of success and I have began dialysis treatment once again as a patient for the second time of my life. Although back on dialysis, since January of 2022, I am happy and grateful to be an advocate for all dialysis patients and dialysis travelers, despite my circumstances. One of the hardest things for most people to do, is to ask for help. What is really hard to do is to ask someone to sacrifice a human organ, in order for you to live and now I am put in that position where I am asking for A KIDNEY DONOR.

Everyone isn't and won't be able to be a kidney donor but my co-workers cared enough for me to create this marketing video to share with the masses. I am currently on medical work leave, BUT I have the best job and work for the greatest company. My CEO, CFO, vice president, and the marketing department of AHS Staffing thought enough of me to suggest and market my story, in hopes of getting a kidney transplant donor and any other help that is offered. #AHSstrong

The donations received will be used for travel, housing, and other miscellaneous expenses associated with the receipt of a kidney transplant.