{"id":10587,"date":"2025-07-31T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:56:43","slug":"donatelife-week-meet-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/donatelife-week-meet-james\/","title":{"rendered":"DonateLife Week – Meet James"},"content":{"rendered":"

For 10-year-old James, the road to a kidney transplant wasn\u2019t an easy one, but it was full of hope, support, and incredible generosity.<\/p>\n

Diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease as a baby, James has been receiving care from The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital team since he was just six days old. By the time he was five, it became clear that he would need a kidney transplant. But despite numerous family members stepping forward to offer their kidneys, none were a match.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a difficult journey with an unknown timeline,\u201d says James\u2019 mum, Anna. \u201cWe are so grateful to everyone who offered to be tested.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until a family friend put their hand up that everything changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen our donor offered, we were over the moon,\u201d says Anna. \u201cTheir generosity allowed James to have his transplant at just the right time, and he avoided dialysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The transplant surgery was a success, and James is now living a much healthier life. \u201cBefore the transplant, I felt very sick. I couldn\u2019t eat or do anything. I was just tired,\u201d says James. \u201cNow, I\u2019m excited to swim and run.\u201d<\/p>\n

James and his family are forever thankful to their donor for the life-saving gift they gave him. \u201cThey\u2019re now part of our family forever,\u201d shares Anna.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy donor is very special to me\u201d, says James.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they did for me was the most amazing thing I\u2019ve ever had in my life\u2026 If you want to be a donor\u2026you can do it to help someone feel better \u2013 like me!\u201d<\/p>\n

You can register for organ donation via DonateLife.<\/a><\/p>\n

Your decision could change someone\u2019s life \u2013 just like James\u2019 donor did.<\/p>\n

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Diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease as a baby, James has been receiving care from The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) team since he was just six days old. By the time he was five, it became clear that he would need a kidney transplant. But despite numerous family members stepping forward to offer their kidneys, none were a match.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7061,"featured_media":10592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}