Kristal Cassell rests in her hospital room at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem where she has been for three weeks. She is awaiting a kidney transplant after an earlier transplanted kidney failed.
Donnie Roberts/The Dispatch
Things seem to come in twos for Kristal Cassell.
She hasn't had a good day in two years. That's when a second kidney failed, which has made it difficult for the single mother to care for her two young daughters.
Cassell, 37, of Lexington, is on a transplant list but runs the risk of not being able to wait it out.
Sometimes things have come in threes, as well.
As of Friday, she had spent three weeks at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, being treated for a blood clot near her heart, undergoing dialysis three days per week and dealing with the general complications that come with a dysfunctional kidney.
At least three people have volunteered to be donors — her mother, brother and friend Beth Burke — but all were rejected. Her mother and brother were both found to have high blood pressure, and Burke was denied because she is a recovering alcoholic.
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