A friend and colleague donated a kidney to his Dad last week. Not only that but he has been keeping us updated by text and tweets ever since!
I’m glad to say both patients are doing well and Matt is back home from hospital already. I suppose we all think we would donate an organ if we were called upon to do so, but which of us would really step up to the mark?
This post is dedicated to all organ donors. In terms of ‘doing something amazing,’ it certainly puts my occasional pint of O positive in the shade!
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What a courageous thing to do, even for someone close. I believe I could do it, in theory, but don’t know if I would actually be able to go through with it. Here’s to all those fantastic people who do!
I hope your friend and his father have long and happy lives.
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I’ve been on the bone marrow donor register for a long time, and I sometimes wonder what would happen if they rang me up. But at least you replace bone marrow, a kidney is something you’ve only got 2 of!! But for Mum, Dad or daughter I think I’d do it. And I don’t think I’ve done too much to damage them if they were needed. :o)
Must start donating platelets again though (they rang me up last week to ask whether I could go again). If you have the ability to sit still for a couple of hours you can do it and its just like blood doning (just takes longer). And you can do it very regularly (I used to do once a fortnight!), and get double ‘points’ which is why I’ve got more than 300 donations to my name…
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