I'm losing the kidney I've waited so long for. Please help.

Hi, I am Miroslava and I am 24 years old. Unfortunately, I feel like a lot more considering everything I've been through the last year.

November last year I found out I was pregnant. My husband and I were so happy with this news that we were not stepping on the ground with happiness. At first everything was fine, but in the third month of pregnancy I lost the baby. The doctors gave me no explanation...they said... "it happens". They didn't do any further tests or recommend anything...

A month after losing the baby, I suddenly had a blood pressure of 220 and was admitted to the hospital on an emergency basis with life threatening condition. There they did tests and found out that my creatinine was 884 and I was put on dialysis on an emergency basis. It turned out that apparently this was the cause of the pregnancy loss as well, only no one had tested me before.

I was told that the only chance I had of leading a normal life was a transplant. I had severe anaemia from the dialysis which was difficult to manage. I was not well at all.

My family immediately started looking for a suitable donor and doing research. My father was tested but unfortunately he was turned down as a donor because of heart problems. It was too risky for him. Everyone in my family got tested, but the blood types didn't match.

Luckily my aunt turned out to be my blood type and we started the detailed research right away. After multiple ones, she was approved and the transplant was finally done.

In the beginning everything was fine, the operation was successful, the kidney started functioning immediately. Creatinine was dropping. At the first check-up after discharge, the blood results showed that the creatinine had risen sharply. Immediate emergency hospitalization was required for diagnosis. The doctors biopsied the kidney and it turned out that my immune system wanted to throw out the newly transplanted kidney. I was immediately put on systems that have very expensive medications.

Up until now my family had been managing with our own money and help from relatives and friends. But the amount we need for the treatment is now unaffordable for us.

The treatment will cost approximately EUR 40 000, and we already owe the hospital a huge amount because the treatment could not be delayed and I was admitted on an emergency basis. Thank God the medicine is helping now, the creatinine has started to drop again. But we will not manage without your help.

We ask everyone who can help us. Let me fulfill my dream to become a mother one day and lead a normal life. I bow to all of you people who give hope to us in need.