{"id":505,"date":"2021-02-13T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/13\/the-people-using-instagram-to-find-a-life-saving-kidney-donor\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T10:51:47","slug":"the-people-using-instagram-to-find-a-life-saving-kidney-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/13\/the-people-using-instagram-to-find-a-life-saving-kidney-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"The people using Instagram to find a life-saving kidney donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Harris says he was not only looking for an organ donation, he wanted to put a face to his largely invisible kidney disease<\/p>\n<p>Bo Harris was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2015. In the five years since, he has gone to countless doctor appointments, spent weeks in bed with symptoms of the illness such as severe fatigue and body aches, and even battled and beat lung cancer. But the most difficult part of the journey by far, he says, was pushing the publish button on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_ictSTngPb\/\">first Instagram post<\/a> searching for a life-saving kidney donation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very out of my nature to have to ask people for anything, and for this, you have to essentially ask, \u2018Can you donate an organ so I can continue living?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s unimaginably difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/feb\/13\/kidney-donation-social-media-instagram-facebook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/24528789d60f6c9956fc8073e0353bfbb12798e9\/0_0_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4e03e208ee8e360b4c496cb99f3d1097\" title=\"The people using Instagram to find a life-saving kidney donor\" \/>Bo Harris says he was not only looking for an organ donation, he wanted to put a face to his largely invisible kidney disease<br \/>\nBo Harris was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2015. In the five years since, he has gone to countless doctor appointments, spent weeks in bed with symptoms of the illness such as severe fatigue and body aches, and even battled and beat lung cancer. But the most difficult part of the journey by far, he says, was pushing the publish button on his first Instagram post searching for a life-saving kidney donation.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s very out of my nature to have to ask people for anything, and for this, you have to essentially ask, \u2018Can you donate an organ so I can continue living?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s unimaginably difficult.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Harris says he was not only looking for an organ donation, he wanted to put a face to his largely invisible kidney disease Bo Harris was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2015. In the five years since, he has gone to countless doctor appointments, spent weeks in bed with symptoms of the illness &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/13\/the-people-using-instagram-to-find-a-life-saving-kidney-donor\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The people using Instagram to find a life-saving kidney donor<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}