Overview
- Phillips, 45, is hospitalized at UCLA’s CORE Kidney program and receiving dialysis as her 2017 transplant fails.
- She called her condition extremely urgent, warning a line infection could be fatal within days.
- Roughly 1,300 people offered to be tested, with the pool narrowed to about 50–60 potential matches and no confirmed donor yet.
- Her brother, Aron Wilson, was not a match, and a paired kidney-exchange option is being pursued after an initial denial.
- She described major insurance disputes and mounting bills tied to her transplants and dialysis, saying she now carries multiple policies and Medicare.