East Hartford State Rep. Jeff Currey is just one of about 350 people on Hartford HealthCare’s organ transplant waiting list, but he is using his bully pulpit to raise awareness about the urgent need for more living donors to sign up to save his and hundreds of other lives.
Currey discovered this summer that he has chronic kidney disease and is already at stage five kidney failure, putting him in dire need of a living donor for a transplant as soon as possible, but he and many other transplant patients might wait years before a viable match is discovered.