At this point only a few people know what I’m doing. Obviously my wife Michele knows and is very supportive (though apprehensive and understandably worried as well). I told my boss yesterday since this will eventually require several weeks away from work. I’ve also shared my plans with Bryce, Kerri, and Amy whose story helped […]
The most interesting thing, so far…
Something I was curious about was how do they decide which kidney will be the one that gets “taken”? One of the points that was stressed to me by the coordinator was that my health was their first concern. I will have an advocate assigned to me for that particular purpose. Now, back the question. […]
But “Why do this?” you ask.
I’ll admit my first thought about doing this was motivated by an article I had read several years ago about a person’s experience at having received a kidney from an anonymous donor. I wish I still had the link to it. I was moved, but not enough. Later I saw and read this from my […]
Got a call today…
So, I got a call from someone at CMC today regarding my application to be a donor. She asked me several follow-up questions based on the information that I had provided and answered the few questions that I had. They are putting a package in the mail to me to collect urine for my initial […]
Now, I wait
I finished my donor packet form this morning and placed it in the mail. Now I wait. The form didn’t have any information about non-directed living donations though. So now I’m curious what the next step will be. I know there are psych screenings involved to make sure that the donor is doing so […]
The start of a journey
And with this packet begins my journey to be an anonymous living kidney donor. I’ve been considering doing this for years, but now it’s time I commit to doing it.