Ginger Blair-Farmer, pictured with her family, is in need of a kidney. The Falconer resident, in association with The Kidney Connection, is searching for a donor within the surrounding community.

Ginger Blair-Farmer just wants her normal life back.

Diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, Blair-Farmer is scheduled to begin dialysis treatment if a donor fails to come forward before her kidney essentially shuts down.

“I would be getting back life,” she said of receiving a transplant. “I’d be getting back a life, a quality of life that I wouldn’t be able to have without a kidney donor.”

At the time she spoke to The Post-Journal, her kidney was functioning at 14 percent. She expects that within six months she will her kidney will need the dialysis treatment as functionality will have reached a critical percentage.

While dialysis is a viable option, she hopes a donor will come forward soon.

The Kidney Connection, a locally managed curator of donors, is again asking for the community’s help to provide Blair-Farmer with an organ she desperately needs.

Currently, she is on two transplant lists, but maintained the chances of finding a successful donor increases as she continues to promote herself. A main reason she reached out to The Kidney Connection was to simply do something rather than “do nothing.”

Blair-Farmer is the mother of five children. Diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease at the age of 21, it slowly began shutting down her kidney. Over the last four years, she said her kidney’s decline as increased more rapidly.

Blair-Farmer will soon turn 43 and hopes that a potential transplant can be organized this year. Her father, who was diagnosed with the same disease, had his first transplant at 44.

Now with hopes of getting a transplant of her own around the same age when her father underwent the same process, her oldest daughter, Gabrielle Blair, was recently diagnosed with the kidney-deteriorating disease.

“She’s close to the age I was when I found out and my dad was going through it,” Blair-Farmer said.” “Now she knows and I’m going through it.”

While she understands what her daughter is going through, her hope is to receive a kidney transplant to allow her to become a fully-functioning member of her family again.

The disease, especially in the last few years, generally makes her fatigued much easier than normal. Blair-Farmer, an avid hiker, runner and cyclist said the sickness has taken much of what she loves away from her.

If she does, in fact, find a donor, she looks forward to, “just being a fun mom and not having life revolve around (her).”

“I want to be a part of the family instead of being a part of the family from the background,” she said.

Asked what she would tell potential donors, Blair-Farmer said interested individuals should visit The Kidney Connection website.

Even if people decide to not donate to her specifically, she encouraged people to browse the sight to possibly donate to the other individuals on the site as some people have been waiting “a really long time.”

For anyone considering donating an organ, she said, “the difference you make in someone else’s life is tremendous. It’s a small sacrifice but comes with big changes for other person.”

Blair-Farmer’s story, as well as others, can be found at kidneyconnection.org.