{"id":59279,"date":"2022-04-26T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=59279"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:19:27","slug":"kidney-transplants-saved-her-life-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/kidney-transplants-saved-her-life-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Transplants Saved Her Life \u2014 Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59281\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk- Nephrology\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk-301x167.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2022\/04\/Linda-and-Betsy-healthtalk.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Linda and Betsy in Bolivia in 2014, featured in a Healthtalk news story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Betsy Crais was a graduate student, she started having abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms and went to her doctor to find out what was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe showed me the X-rays\u2014I had black holes all over my kidneys,\u201d she says. Those \u201cblack holes\u201d were cysts from polycystic kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>That was more than 35 years ago. Since then, Crais has undergone two kidney transplants and a liver transplant. She is doing well now and shares her story so others will understand what is involved in organ donation and why it is so important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/kidney-transplants-saved-her-life-twice\/\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Betsy Crais was a graduate student, she started having abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms and went to her doctor to find out what was wrong. \u201cHe showed me the X-rays\u2014I had black holes all over my kidneys,\u201d she says. Those \u201cblack holes\u201d were cysts from polycystic kidney disease. That was more than 35 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/kidney-transplants-saved-her-life-twice\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kidney Transplants Saved Her Life \u2014 Twice\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112673,"featured_media":59281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101,2],"tags":[631],"class_list":["post-59279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nephrology","category-news","tag-631","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kidney Transplants Saved Her Life \u2014 Twice | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/kidney-transplants-saved-her-life-twice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kidney Transplants Saved Her Life \u2014 Twice | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When Betsy Crais was a graduate student, she started having abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms and went to her doctor to find out what was wrong. \u201cHe showed me the X-rays\u2014I had black holes all over my kidneys,\u201d she says. 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