Nonprofit helping Bronx man waiting for new kidney

Three sisters from Westchester are helping a 20-year-old Bronx man look for a kidney donor. Jennifer, Cynthia and Heather Flood started the nonprofit Flood Sisters Kidney Foundation of America to match

News 12 Staff

Oct 16, 2014, 9:28 PM

Updated 3,488 days ago

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Nonprofit helping Bronx man waiting for new kidney
Three sisters from Westchester are helping a 20-year-old Bronx man look for a kidney donor.
Jennifer, Cynthia and Heather Flood started the nonprofit Flood Sisters Kidney Foundation of America to match patients with living donors after they successfully found a match to help their father. 
They are now hoping they can help Robert Rodriguez as well, who has been living with kidney disease since he was 12.
Patients waiting for a kidney transplant from a non-living donor can wait up to 10 years or more before a match is found. However, chances of survival and good health increase when a living donor is used because there is no wait list involved.


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