SAVE ONE PERSON. Shawna Martel was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 5. In 2006, at age 21, when she was pregnant with her son, she learned her kidneys were failing. Shawna had managed to keep them working until now. Tragically, since October 31, 2023, she has been on dialysis six hours every other night. Shawna is 39-years-old now. In her 39 years of life she has suffered a series of health conditions – diabetes, a lung collapse, two years of blindness requiring 14 surgeries on her eyes. Then, the worst of it is Kidney Failure. She is running out of time and needs a kidney from a living donor to live. If you are in good health with blood type O+, have a desire to be an angel and would like to save a life, please call her at (413) 717-5038 or you can go to massgeneral.com/transplant for more information. Shawna is worried, she might not see her son graduate from high school. Can you give Shawna the gift of life? Your gift of a kidney will enable her to see her son to grow and fulfill all her dreams and live a life with her family and friends. Please share your spare with Shawna. Spread her story.
