Omaha 18-month-old needs kidney transplant after living on dialysis since birth

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Eighteen-month-old Claire Stannard has spent her entire life tethered to a dialysis machine, but her family is hoping a living donor will step forward to give her a chance at a normal childhood.

Claire was born with no functioning kidneys and has been on dialysis since she was two weeks old.

Every night for the past year and a half, her parents connect her to a dialysis machine for 11 hours in what looks more like a hospital room than a typical toddler’s bedroom…

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