*I know what you’re thinking and I agree: She doesn’t even look sick.
But she is.
Darvece Monson admits she has tried everything to secure a kidney with no luck. And with the traditional options looking so bleak, she is willing to look at alternatives.
For the past year, three days a week, six-hours per day, Monson has been on hemodialysis; a treatment endured by 35 percent of Black Americans in the U. S. But the mother of an 8-year-old says that it was actually the treatments that made her hopeful about potentially getting a 3D printed kidney, which would reduce the waiting time on lists that currently hold approximately 25,000 out of 70,000 people (of all races) to weeks rather than years. This, in addition to the possibility that her body may actually reject the organ, which is a major concern in organ transplants.
“It is a blessing that I am in Chicago, African-American and female; that also is my curse,” Monson chuckles.
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