Hampton Family Seeks Life-Saving Kidney

The family of a Winnacunnet High School graduate is urgently seeking help to find a donor for their daughter’s much-needed kidney transplant.

The Kahigian family is campaigning to find a living kidney donor for their 29-year-old daughter, Jessica, whose recent rapid kidney failure has brought her to the brink of needing dialysis.

This will be Jessica’s second transplant; her first, necessitated by a genetic kidney disease, occurred when she was a teenager.

Jessica, who now lives in Exeter, is getting by on more than a dozen medications to make up for her failing kidney and lives with constant fatigue.

She said waiting on the organ donor list could take up to five years.

Jessica’s younger sister Christina has started a GoFundMe page to help cover the medical costs that continue to mount.