Help find a kidney for Sam

12/17/2025

During my latest visit to the hospital, I was notified that I’m officially at stage 5 renal failur… Samantha Martin needs your support for Transplant expenses

12/11/2025

It’s been EXACLY one month since my failed transplant. One month of being in pain every single day. My veins are so destroyed I can’t get blood anymore.

I’ve gone under anesthesia 3 times and will again tomorrow. This can’t be good for me. I’m so tired. Being at seton, the care was pretty awful but they let me sleep as much as I wanted. Here at st David’s, they care is better but the second you close your eyes someone is in your room bothering you with some nonsense.

I’m sorry but blood draws every 6 hours when my arms have nothing left to give is exsessive. I just want to get better.

12/10/2025

I’m still having complications from my failed transplant. So I’m back in the hospital. Thankfully I’m at a hospital I’m more comfortable with.

Mentally, I’m broken. I hate the domino effect this one surgery has had. It was supposed to be a good thing and it’s been nothing but pain. I feel like I lost everything over night. I was happy in my routine prior. But as soon as I took that offer, everything changed.

And even now, I should be healing, I should be getting better, and I’m not. Now I’m worried about paying my bills, giving my kids Christmas, being able to work after this. Nothing has been ok but I’m hoping it starts soon. I’m barely hanging on.

12/09/2025

Just trying to get through the holidays so I can get back to working.

During my latest visit to the hospital, I was notified that I’m officially at stage 5 renal failur… Samantha Martin needs your support for Transplant expenses

12/06/2025

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During my latest visit to the hospital, I was notified that I’m officially at stage 5 renal failur… Samantha Martin needs your support for Transplant expenses

12/06/2025

My name is Samantha, and this is my journey living with polycystic kidney disease (PKD).

I found out I had PKD when I was 21. It’s hereditary, and I inherited it from my dad. PKD has taken a huge toll on my family ,my dad passed away from it, two of his brothers needed transplants, and another one of his brothers died from the disease. I always knew it was in my genes, but I didn’t expect it to impact my life this early or this aggressively.

About three years ago, my kidneys went into full failure and I had to start dialysis. Since then, I’ve been fighting to stay healthy enough for the transplant list. I’ve continued working through everything, even while going through three PD ports, three chest catheters, and battling a rare microbacterial infection that required an open stomach wound healing from the insude out. On top of that, I went through a rare pregnancy while on dialysis , something most doctors only read about in textbooks. They actual read textbooks for guidence in my case.

After years of waiting, I finally got the call I thought would change my life: a kidney became available. On 11/11, I received a transplant from an anonymous donor. To make room for the new kidney, surgeons removed both of my native kidneys. At first, the new kidney worked it produced urine, and it looked like everything was finally turning around.

But very quickly, things took a devastating turn.

The new kidney suddenly clotted and stopped functioning. I was rushed into emergency surgery, but there was nothing the surgeons could do to save it. They had to remove the transplant. Overnight, I went from having hope for a new life to having no kidneys at all.

I’m now back on hemodialysis and trying to recover, but this recovery has been much harder on my body and my emotions. It feels like starting all over again only this time, with more scars and more weight on my shoulders.

I’m sharing my story because I’m hoping someone out there will read this and consider becoming a living kidney donor. I want nothing more than to finally move forward with my life, to be there for my children (Bella,Mila,Maeve & Meadow) and to have the chance at the future I’ve been fighting for all these years.

Please share my story.

12/05/2025

Back at Del Seton, to hopefully resolve some issues caused by my failed transplant.

12/04/2025

Humbly begging for a donor at this point. Before my failed transplant, life was not so bad while I waited for my turn.

Since I lost my kidneys, things have gotten increasingly bad. To the point where I understand why people give up. I spend my days alone in pain just trying to make sense of everything.

My goal was to get my transplant, heal and move closer to my girls and now that dream seems so much further away. The type of heartbroken I am does not go away. It reminds me how I felt last November alone in that hospital room for a whole month, the only difference is now I’m home and I’ve never been more alone.

I just want to move on from this. Please help me find a donor.

Here is the application for my kidney donation. Please share. I wont let this set back stop me from living the life i want.

https://transplantaustin.donorscreen.org/register/now

12/01/2025

I woke up feeling completely defeated. Living in constant pain with no breaks really starts to break down your mental strength.

So I went to my appointment with the transplant center in hopes of finding a solution. Like, this can’t be it, this can’t be my new normal. And I’m so thankful they were able to offer me one.

Since a majority of my pain is from the fluid buildup, they offered a paracentesis. So Friday I’ll have that procedure and I’m hoping it provides some relief.

11/30/2025

I wanted to post a visual of what I’m talking about when I’m complaining about fluid removal. My dialysis center has not been removing enough fluid and it’s been leaving my body in extreme pain.

Before my failed transplant I still had residual kidney function, so my body did not retain water the way it does now. Before the surgery, although I was on dialysis I never needed fluid removal. So I was able to live a somewhat normal life.

The fluid doesn’t just buildup in your legs, it’s your arms, and most importantly it builds up around your organs. This is how someone can die from fluid buildup, they drown with fluid in their lungs. So when Ivd been crying for the last week over 20lb of fluid buildup, this is why.