It Only Takes OneAre you a match?
Two distant figures and a dog walking a mountain trail at dawn, layered Colorado ridgelines ahead of them

Help Bob find a kidney donor

Help Bob King find a living kidney donor

Are you a match?
Bob King, smiling, in a cap and glasses

Meet Bob

My name is Robert King, but everyone calls me Bob. I am an active senior, and I still feel like that south side Irish kid from Chicago at heart.

Even now, I keep busy. I love reading and taking on DIY projects for family — fixing a cabinet, building a shelf, or helping Patrick with something around the house.

I believe in volunteerism. I helped build two homes with Habitat for Humanity, and I have raised funds for numerous charities — doing walks for them and giving my own money.

Robert “Bob” King · National Kidney Registry
Bob King standing at a railing overlook with snow-capped Rocky Mountains behind him
Bob King, in the mountains he moved here for.

I now need a volunteer.

We ask ourselves, if I had the opportunity, would I save someone’s life? The opportunity is now.

Please save my life.

Six nights a week

A year of nights

One year ago, Bob was diagnosed with Stage V kidney disease. He is currently on home dialysis six days a week, for eight hours a night.

365 marks, one for every night of the past year. 313 marks are filled — nights Bob spent on home dialysis, eight hours at a time. 52 marks are hollow — his one night off each week.

On the machine
313 nights
Night off
52 nights
  • 6nights a weekon home dialysis
  • 8hours a nighthooked to the machine

A life, not a patient

This is what the nights are costing him

  • Bob and his wife smiling on a snowy winter hike, both in hats and heavy coats
  • Bob and two family members standing at a railing at Red Rocks in Colorado
  • Bob lying on a lawn holding the puppy close to his face
  • Bob with his son and wife by the water in California at sunset
  • Bob sitting at an outdoor restaurant table with the dog and its paws up on the table
  • Bob standing alone in deep snow in a whiteout, wearing snowshoes and waving

Years, or months

Waiting for a deceased donor

3 to 5 years

With a living donor

Months

One block is one month.

A living donor is the difference between years and months. That is the whole reason this page exists.

Could you be the one?

  • Blood type is not a barrier.

    Paired exchange lets an incompatible donor still help Bob.

  • Any healthy adult can be considered.

    18 to 80 and older, in good health.

  • Donation costs the donor nothing.

    Covered by the recipient’s insurance.

  • You can be tested close to home.

    Screen at any U.S. transplant center.

  • Testing is confidential and non-binding.

    You can stop at any point.

  • You only need one healthy kidney.

    Donors work, travel, raise children, run marathons.

How it works

  1. 01Open Bob’s National Kidney Registry page.
  2. 02Answer a short, confidential questionnaire.
  3. 03Screen anywhere. Free. Non-binding.

It Only Takes One

Become a living donor

National Kidney Registry

Confidential. Free. It does not obligate you to anything. This link opens Bob’s own donor listing.

Bob is on the active transplant list at AdventHealth Porter, Denver.