She received a kidney transplant when she was a child, but COVID damaged it so badly that she now needs a second transplant.
Tiranda Plummer, a 21-year-old biology and pre-medicine major at Jackson State University in Mississippi, survived her recent bout COVID-19. But she now needs a kidney transplant because of the damage the virus did to her organ.
When Plummer was 9 years old, she was diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis . FSGS is a syndrome that damages the tiny filtering units inside a person's kidneys that help detoxify a person's blood. The disease mostly affects women and Black people. "I [felt] like my life was reversed 10 years because I already went through that process," Plummer said.
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