A sorority builds a bond between sisters — but through a kidney donation, one woman showed what it truly means to be your sister’s keeper.
Jessica Hause and Megan Schultz graduated from Ohio State University and are members of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, Inc. These sisters haven’t seen each other since 2007. While they enjoyed life after college, a few years later, in September 2023, Hause’s life changed.
“Not really sure why it happened, and it came as a total shock,” Hause said.
Hause, 36, was living her life to the fullest. After graduating from OSU, she moved to Phoenix for 11 years and then to Charlotte after the COVID-19 pandemic. She had no clue her health would go for a turn.
She started experiencing extreme fatigue, could not urinate and became numb from her knees down. Her brother rushed her to the hospital and that’s when she was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease.
“I had to start dialysis immediately. I was 36 at the time. It came as a total shock,” Hause said.
That prompted her to move back to Cincinnati with her parents as she underwent treatments, dialysis and a lot of doctors appointments at The Christ Hospital, where she was later told that she’d need a kidney.