Family pleads for kidney donor as teen’s health declines: 'We need help'

A New Jersey household is desperately seeking a surviving donor to prevention Thaddeus Giansanti, an eighth-grader who was calved with kidney disease. 

Thaddeus has had aggregate surgeries passim his 13 years, including 1 to region a kidney arsenic a baby.

Despite his struggles, helium has remained affirmative and optimistic, his parents shared with Fox News Digital.

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"His remaining kidney is present failing," said his father, Carlo Giansanti. "We are not a match, truthful present we’re asking for assistance from the community."

The household archetypal recovered retired astir their son's kidney illness earlier helium was born, erstwhile an ultrasound detected a imaginable issue.

Christa DeMark and Carlo Giansanti are pictured with their lad Thaddeus, who has battled kidney illness his full life.  (Christa DeMark)

"It was thing alarming astatine that constituent — it looked similar helium had other fluid erstwhile helium was born," Thaddeus' mother, Christa DeMark, told Fox News Digital. "Everything seemed normal, but close earlier we were leaving, they noticed an elevated creatinine fig (a measurement of kidney relation successful humor tests) that led to america being successful interaction with nephrology."

She added, "There was thing incorrect with the ureters (tubes that transportation urine from the kidneys to the bladder) and the enactment of the kidneys."

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Thaddeus spent an extended play of clip successful the NICU, wherever helium had aggregate procedures. Before helium was adjacent 5 months old, helium underwent a near nephrectomy to region his near kidney. 

His remaining kidney was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, which has required lifelong medications.

"He's been with nephrology and nephrologists his full life, and up until past year, everything's been stable, but that’s been dilatory changing," DeMark said. "He’s getting bigger, and it's been putting much accent connected his remaining kidney."

Thaddeus, present 13, has had aggregate surgeries passim his life, including 1 to region his kidney arsenic a baby. (Christa DeMark)

Doctors informed the household that their champion people of enactment would beryllium to find a surviving donor.

"Everything's been sped up based connected his bloodwork lately," DeMark said. "So it's looking similar we request thing quicker than we thought, which is wherefore we’re looking for surviving donors."

"It has pushed america to trust connected religion successful a mode that's precise palpable — we are conscionable coming unneurotic arsenic a household and taking each time arsenic it comes."

If Thaddeus does not person a kidney transplant wrong a mates of weeks, helium volition request to beryllium enactment connected dialysis, according to his doctors.

"It’s evidently been challenging for him," DeMark said. "He's dealing with it precise well, but these are hard situations we're navigating."

His parents picture Thaddeus arsenic a smart, outgoing lad — a straight-A pupil who was precocious awarded aggregate scholarships for adjacent year, erstwhile helium volition go a high-school freshman.

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Thaddeus is precise diversion and enjoys playing soccer, golfing and fencing. He besides plays soft and often volunteers successful his community, including being an altar server and moving with the section nutrient pantry.

"He loves his family, and loves doing things with his family," DeMark said. "He's conscionable a large kid."

The boy's remaining kidney is failing, and his household is asking the assemblage to assistance find a life-saving donor. (Christa DeMark)

Thaddeus' parents said they person not shared overmuch astir their son's aesculapian information until now. "We wanted Thad to conscionable beryllium the bright, blessed idiosyncratic that helium is, truthful we've minimized it for years," DeMark said. 

But successful the past mates of weeks, arsenic their son’s information has go much dire, they person started to talk retired astir their situation.

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"We ne'er expected to person specified an outpouring of radical who cared oregon radical trying to assistance — it’s been incredibly humbling," DeMark said.

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"It has pushed america to trust connected religion successful a mode that's precise palpable — we are conscionable coming unneurotic arsenic a household and taking each time arsenic it comes," she went on. "We are remaining hopeful due to the fact that we cognize there's a solution to this problem. We conscionable request help."

"The occurrence Thad needs close present is radical who person the quality to measurement up," his parent said. "He is simply a large kid, a benignant kid." (Christa DeMark)

To beryllium considered for the donation program, kidney donors indispensable beryllium 45 oregon younger, person a BMI nether 30 and lucifer Thaddeus’ O humor type.

For those who are considering becoming donors, DeMark emphasized that it entails a laparoscopic process with a "fairly quick" healing process that is covered by their insurance, not the donor’s.

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"The occurrence Thad needs close present is radical who person the quality to measurement up," she added. "He is simply a large kid, a benignant kid."

Those funny successful being considered arsenic a donor tin implicit this Kidney Transplant Living Donor Questionnaire.