Star of Modern Family, Sarah Hyland, has revealed a huge secret: The 21 year old actress has been struggling with a condition called kidney dysplasia and recently received a kidney transplant, thanks to her father Edward.
In interviews with Seventeen magazine and Good Morning America, Hyland said she had the operation in mid April.
The actress told Good Morning America of the pain she dealt with while working on-set, “If you’re sick you still go to work and in between takes you sit down or you lay your head down or something.”
The show, Modern Family, is on hiatus at the moment, giving Hyland some time to recover.
The experience, she told Seventeen, has left her thankful for family, “I have a second chance at life … not a lot of people get that.”
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You need to have the conversation with you family and tell them what your wishes are. I’ve told my husband, parents and sibling what my wishes are. While having a chat at my house one day it went like this: “by the way, if anything happens to me, just so you know, this is what I want”.
I think you need to have the conversation with your family to remove any guilt they might feel in making the decision on your behalf. Instead they can feel that they were able to fulfil your wishes as a final gesture to you.
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Follow her on Twitter – she’s hilarious
https://twitter.com/Sarah_Hyland
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My theory has always been . If your willing to take a transplant for yourself or a member of your family
You should also be willing to give too
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from my experience, if you are in need of a donor you are probably not even in the headspace of being able to even consider that you would be in the position to donate anything.
Australian organ donation is an opt-in program… most people dont know that, it should be talked about more.
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My brother received a kidney transplant from our older brother earlier this year. It was a truly generous act, especially considering the donor brother has four children of his own. My mother desperately wanted to be the donor but was considered a last resort due to her age (despite being in good health). I really admire the way both of them have handled this too. The recipient has a new lease on life and seems to have his shit sorted for the first time in a reeeeeeeeaaaaaaally long time. The donor has had some ups and downs in his recovering, however, it must be really difficult to be in good health to start with and then take months to really recover from surgery.
Yay for all the donors out there!
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lol emotional morning for me on MM.
I hope this brings up the conversation of how important donors are. You never know who might need an organ and how it might save their life.
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Gosh she’s gorgeous! So glad her father was able to help her out!
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