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23-year-old awaiting kidney donation to save her life

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — 23-year-old Amber Shofner has spent the past four years of her life in end-stage renal failure.

“I’ve had so many procedures, I’m kind of use to it now, but sometimes it gets mentally hard going in there knowing you’re going to wake up in pain,” Shofner said.

From constant doctor’s appointments to dialysis three days a week, Amber says it’s hard to keep a good mindset as she waits for a kidney.

“I always hope that it happens soon because with being on dialysis, the longer you’re on it, things get a little bit worse,” she said.

Amber was first diagnosed with stage four chronic kidney disease when she was a sophomore in high school. That quickly progressed to where she is now: end-stage renal failure.

“I was in college for about a semester, and during that time, I could tell that my body was getting worse,” Shofner said.

She had to drop out, and it was one of the hardest decisions she’s had to make.

“I was going out a lot more, hanging out with a lot more people, and when I started going through it, I just got closed off,” she said.

Amber fights for her life every day, but she says she now has peace with whatever is meant to happen.

“I believe there is a really good person out there that will hopefully have it on their heart to donate,” she said.

You don’t need to have the same blood type as someone to donate. There’s donor exchange programs and other ways in which doctors can help patients get the organs they need to keep living.

If you want to donate, you can learn more by calling The University of Kentucky Transplant Center at (859)-323-2467.

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