A British woman who had been given just months to live unless she underwent a kidney transplant took matters into her own hands and placed an ad in a local newspaper as she searched for a potential donor, according to the Daily Mail
Janet Bell, 43, was diagnosed with kidney failure in 1996 and since then, she has already had two transplants.
The beauty salon owner told the Sunday Mirror: 'I can't stand the idea of just lying there waiting to die. I've asked friends and family, I've asked customers in my salon. I even put a status on Facebook but I still can't find a match.
'Short of walking down the street with a sandwich board on, there's nothing else I can do. This advert is my last hope of survival.'
At the age of 26, Bell had her first surgery but her body rejected the new kidney meaning she had to have a second transplant. She was on the waiting list for eight years before eventually receiving another new kidney. This has now failed as well.
"I can't stand the idea of just lying there waiting to die. I've asked friends and family, I've asked customers in my salon. I even put a status on Facebook but I still can't find a match.
"Short of walking down the street with a sandwich board on, there's nothing else I can do. This advert is my last hope of survival."
Bell has been on the waiting list for eight years before eventually receiving another new kidney. This has now failed as well.
However, this time she needs a live donor as the antibody levels in her body are so high it would be impossible to find a deceased donor whose kidney her body would not reject.
An antibody is a protein substance that is made by the body's immune system in response to a foreign object - such as a transplanted organ.
