Black Mom Says Her 5-Year-Old Daughter Needs a Kidney Donor to Keep Living

Every day, this mother wakes up knowing her child’s life depends on a phone call that still hasn’t come. Her daughter, just five years old, has learned the language of sickness far too early: dialysis, lab results, transplant lists. Yet she still colors pictures for her nurses, still laughs at cartoons, still asks if she’ll feel better “soon.” That word hangs in the air like a promise no one can quite make.

The family’s world has shrunk to hospital rooms and waiting rooms, but their hope has not. Her mother is speaking out now, not for sympathy, but in desperate search of a kidney donor who might be her daughter’s match. She’s urging people, especially in diverse communities, to learn about living donation, to register, to share the story. Somewhere, she believes, is the person who can give her little girl the chance to grow up, to run, to dream, to simply live.