Hello! I anonymously donated my kidney in January of 2020. This kicked off a kidney chain that provided four kidneys for people. Great article. One point that is missed is that by donating to a stranger and not meeting the recipient builds a greater, more caring bond with strangers.
Anyone among us could have my kidney that has served to end the hell of dialysis, a 12 hours a week that has been described as a "living death." This profound caring for strangers has the power to expand the donors' desire to help those we don't know in the...
In response to Ryan's comments, thank you for your detailed and informative post. The death risk from kidney removal surgery is 3 in 10,000. If the donor does not have high blood pressure, the risk of death drops to 1 in 10,000. Anonymous kidney donors with high blood pressure are not going to be approved. If someone is donating within a family, they are more likely to share the same health issues, mostly because people in a family eat similar foods. Unhealthy food like meat, dairy, sugar, eggs, oil, spark high blood pressure and diabetes, leading to ... (read more)