It’s no coincidence that when you walk into Southern Streams CoffeeHouse in Laurel Park, North Carolina, you feel like family. It’s owned and operated by Lori Rodriguez and her daughters, so a definitive family feel permeates the entire establishment.

One of Lori’s daughters, Bethany, needs our help now more than ever. Bethany, who does meal prep at Southern Streams, is in desperate need of a kidney. Perhaps you, or someone you know, is a perfect match.

Thanks for your time and consideration of giving Bethany the gift of life. Let’s help Bethany find a kidney!

For more information, view the video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcuJR5pC50 — which was produced by the Lucey Agency on location at Southern Streams CoffeeHouse, located in Laurel Park, NC, just outside Hendersonville. The song is entitled “Touch” by Patrick Patrikios.

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The kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are about 12 centimeters (4.5 inches) in length. They receive blood from the paired renal arteries; blood exits into the paired renal veins. Each kidney is attached to a ureter, a tube that carries excreted urine to the bladder. The kidney participates in the control of the volume of various body fluids, fluid osmolality, acid-base balance, various electrolyte concentrations, and removal of toxins. Filtration occurs in the glomerulus: one-fifth of the blood volume that enters the kidneys is filtered. Generally, humans can live normally with just one kidney, as one has more functioning renal tissue than is needed to survive. Only when the amount of functioning kidney tissue is greatly diminished does one develop chronic kidney disease. Renal replacement therapy, in the form of dialysis or kidney transplantation, is indicated when the glomerular filtration rate has fallen very low or if the renal dysfunction leads to severe symptoms.