Harding Zills

Hello! My name is Harding, and I need a kidney transplant to continue living and working.

Please consider clicking here to find out if you are healthy enough to donate on my behalf. Even if we aren’t a match, every donation moves me further up the waitlist for a new kidney.

I live in Middle Tennessee with my partner and our two rescue dogs. I am a dialysis nurse who comes home every night to do my own dialysis. I have been living with kidney disease since 2012 and on the kidney transplant list since 2019. I was born with one kidney, which I didn’t know until college athletics and strenuous exercise ravaged my system.

I need a new kidney to keep going. I could wait for a kidney from a donor who has died, but it takes a really long time. There are almost 100,000 people on the waitlist already in the U.S., and not very many people die in a way that lets them donate. I could spend nearly a decade on the waitlist before I get a kidney that will work for me.

Another big way you can help is sharing my story with your family and friends via email, text or social media. Choose one of the options on the right to share with your network!