After 10 years on dialysis, and a new kidney in “CBS Sunday Morning,” Locia “LQ” Golding, 35, a new kidney.
Before receiving his transplant, Golding reached a home dialysis machine for four and a half hours a day.
“Every day I wake up, I thank God that my feet also collide with the ground and my eyes open and I can still breathe on my own,” he said in an interview in January.
In his interview, Goldering described the challenges of life as one of the about 500,000 Americans, depending on dialysis to depend on dialysis, and expand the uncomfortable shortcomings of care provided by the benefits-benefit clinics. He received treatment at home and said that the dialysis clinic did not leave any control over his care, treated him like a “check”.
A seven -month -old CBS news check See how the profit companies for two called the experts a “duality” to dominate the nationwide market. Critics have accused the firms of dialysis to prioritize profits on patients’ care.
The two biggest beneficial companies in dialysis industry, Fresenius and Davita dispute those criticisms.
Frasenius said in a statement to CBS News that the company focuses an unwavering focus on “improving quality of life, strengthening clinical results and expanding the lifetime of those that we have had the privilege of serving.” Davita said in a statement that its “dedicated physicians offer individual care in constant high quality, a complex clinical and regulatory environment.”
Less than a week after his interview broadcast in June, Golding received a life -saving kidney transplant through a living donor.
At the age of 3, cancer thwarted both golding kidney. He received his first transplant from the dead donor as a teenager, but when he lost the work in 2014, he had to return to dialysis.
In his campaign for a new kidney, Golding did not stop anything – posting hoardings in his community and became a vocal lawyer for people suffering from advanced kidney disease.
On Friday, June 20, he received a call that he was a match for a kidney transplant. Until next Friday, she was on the operating table.
“He asked me if I was scared or I was worried, and I said no one,” Goldring told CBS News in a phone interview. “God found me the right match.”
Laquayia “LQ” courtesy of golding 
Goldering said that it is planning to continue sharing his story, which has emphasized the importance of living donations. Goldering’s kidney was from an unknown person from Georgia, who chose to become a living donor.
“The living and non-living charity saved my life,” says Goldring. “I want to spread that message. People do not have enough information.”
Dr. of Transplant Center of University of Kentki. Malay Shah demonstrated the surgery of Goldering, describing it as “absolutely necessary”.
About one-third of all of all kidney transplants made every year in the US are living-donor kidney transplant. And Shah says that living-donor kidney transplant has the best results and does not require waiting time for the patient.
“When a living donor match came, it was like winning the lottery for him,” Shah said.
While Golding has returned to the hospital for some time since its transplant, his doctors say it is normal with recovery.
A kidney transplant is the only option for patients to get away from dialysis. According to United Network for Organ sharing, around 90,000 people in the US have qualified for a place for a place in the waiting list at any time at any time dialysis.
“I hope more people will hear about [my story] More donors will come forward, “Golding is called.
