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Farmington Hills Woman Turns To Social Media To Find A Kidney

About a hundred thousand people in this country are waiting for a kidney transplant.

Audrey Weinberg of Farmington Hills is using Facebook for her search for a vital organ.

Weinberg spends more than three hours a day hooked up to a dialysis machine to stay alive while she waits for a kidney transplant. The 64-year-old has been on the transplant list for 4 years.

Now she's turning to Facebook. Her page is titled Find a Kidney for Audrey.

Learn more about becoming an organ donor.

She hopes her Facebook friends will tell their friends ... who will tell their friends ... and so on.

"I want to share my story because I know there are people out there who out of the goodness of their hearts want to pay it forward to someone else." said Weinberg.

 

 

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