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DAN IT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. IT WAS A CALL FOR HPEL THAT CAME UNEXPECTEDLY FOR LAURA HUTCHINGS A MOTHER OF FOUR BOYS WITH A FU-TLLIME JOB. SHE HAD NO MORE TIME TO GIVE SO SHE DID ONE BETTER. COULD I DONATE TO SOMEONE THAT I DON’T EVEN KNOW AND AND I WASN’T ENEV AWARE OF THE NEED, BUT I WAS JUST CURIOUS EUGNOH TO FIND OUT MORE IT WAS THAT BILLBOARD THEER THAT LAURA STTPOED AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME OF 2020. SHE WAS DRIVING. I-43 THE BILLBOARD SAID IT WAS LOOKING FOR A MATCHOR F A DONOR PEOPLE ARE OFTEN WAITING FOR FOUR OR FEIV SIXEA YRS JUST BECAUSE THE SUPPLY OF KIDNEYS. UM DOESOT N MEET THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CURRENTLY NEED THEM DR. EMILY JUMOK A KIDNEY SPECIALIST AT FROEDTERT AND THE MEDICAL COLGELE OF WISCONSIN SAYS ALMOST ANYONE CAN BE A DONOR. THEY PROBABLY DON’T HAVE MY BLOOD TYPE OR OH I’’ NOT RELATED TO AND REALLY IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT. THOSE ARE NOT NECESSARY FAIRLY ETH MOST IMPORNTTA THINGS ANYMORE AFTER SUMMER SPENT TESTING LAURA WAS APPROVED TO DONATE AND ON OCTOBER 27TH, 2120. SHE UNDERWENT SURGERY TO GIVE SOMEONE A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. JUST FIND OUT MORE, YOU KNOW, JUST FIND OUT MORE BECAUSE YOU COULD BE THAT LIFE-CHANGING LIFE-SAVING PERSON FOR SOMEB

Woman responds to billboard to help save life of a stranger

Laura Hutchings had surgery in October 2021 to give someone a new lease on life

April is National Donate Life Month, and right now, more than 90,000 people are currently on a waiting list for a kidney donation. It was a call for help that came unexpectedly for Laura Hutchings. “It caught my attention,” she said.As a mother of four boys with a full-time job, Hutchings had no more time to give, so she did one better.”Could I donate to someone that I don’t even know, and I wasn’t even aware of the need, but I was just curious enough to find out more,” Hutchings said.Hutchings spotted a billboard around Christmas 2020 while she was driving that was asking for a kidney donor. “People are often waiting for four, five, six years just because the supply of kidneys does not meet the supply of people who currently need them,” said Dr. Emily Joachim, a kidney specialist at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin.Joachim said almost anyone can be a donor.”They probably don’t have the same blood type, or ‘I’m not related to them,’ but really, in kidney transplant, those are not necessarily the most important things anymore,” Joachim said.After a summer spent testing, Hutchings was approved to donate, and on Oct. 27, 2021, she underwent surgery to give someone a new lease on life.”Just find out more because you could be that life-changing, that lifesaving person for someone else,” Hutchings said.

April is National Donate Life Month, and right now, more than 90,000 people are currently on a waiting list for a kidney donation.

It was a call for help that came unexpectedly for Laura Hutchings.

“It caught my attention,” she said.

As a mother of four boys with a full-time job, Hutchings had no more time to give, so she did one better.

“Could I donate to someone that I don’t even know, and I wasn’t even aware of the need, but I was just curious enough to find out more,” Hutchings said.

Hutchings spotted a billboard around Christmas 2020 while she was driving that was asking for a kidney donor.

“People are often waiting for four, five, six years just because the supply of kidneys does not meet the supply of people who currently need them,” said Dr. Emily Joachim, a kidney specialist at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Joachim said almost anyone can be a donor.

“They probably [think they] don’t have the same blood type, or ‘I’m not related to them,’ but really, in kidney transplant, those are not necessarily the most important things anymore,” Joachim said.

After a summer spent testing, Hutchings was approved to donate, and on Oct. 27, 2021, she underwent surgery to give someone a new lease on life.

“Just find out more because you could be that life-changing, that lifesaving person for someone else,” Hutchings said.