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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Hattiesburg resident Chase Cunningham, 38, got diabetes when she was nine years old. But she doesn't have the disease anymore.
Cunningham received a life-saving kidney-pancreas transplant in 2012 after her kidneys failed.
"The disease can cause numerous complications, and one of them is potential kidney failure," she said. "I thought maybe when I hit 60 they would wear out, but never so young."
Cunningham received her transplant at the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute on Feb. 6, 2012, after being on dialysis for months.
The surgery gave her a new lease on life, allowing her to walk a 5K eight months after her transplant and get married one year after the operation.
Now, she's training for the Transplant Games of America, scheduled for July 12-15 in Houston.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/...m-kidney-transplant-diabetes-ochsner/9304031/
Cunningham received a life-saving kidney-pancreas transplant in 2012 after her kidneys failed.
"The disease can cause numerous complications, and one of them is potential kidney failure," she said. "I thought maybe when I hit 60 they would wear out, but never so young."
Cunningham received her transplant at the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute on Feb. 6, 2012, after being on dialysis for months.
The surgery gave her a new lease on life, allowing her to walk a 5K eight months after her transplant and get married one year after the operation.
Now, she's training for the Transplant Games of America, scheduled for July 12-15 in Houston.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/...m-kidney-transplant-diabetes-ochsner/9304031/