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Kidney Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone here donated a kidney? There was a thread recently on reddit that said "It takes 0.1% of the adult population of the US to agree to donate to fully match 100% of the current UNOS list." As a healthy adult with healthy kidneys, this makes me want to donate. But I was hoping for some personal accounts.

Re: Kidney Donations

[herpymcderp]

I have not donated an organ, but I have received one. Through my experiences I've learned that kidney patients are by far and away the most numerous of people waiting for organ transplants at any given time.

When I was at the top of the waiting list there were three people in dire need of the organ I received, but twenty people had been at the top of the list waiting for kidneys for over a year.

Not only that, the recovery time is so minimal comparatively...

It's up to you OP, but as solid organ transplants go, that's probably the easiest one.

Re: Kidney Donations

[(Anonymous)]

My brother donated to my sister, something like... ten? Years ago. They are both doing swimmingly and it's made her quality of life so much better.

Re: Kidney Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Well I haven't donated one of my own, tell you what. Meet me for drinks afterwards and I'll explain all about it.

Re: Kidney Donations

[meredith44]

I haven't donated a kidney (because my father's kidney disease might have had a genetic component, they aren't sure), but my father received one, and it was such a blessing. He did end up dying, but it was 20 years later (and only tangentially related to the kidney transplant due to the immunosuppressants he had to take combined with other factors), so it allowed me to have him in my life and get to know him more as an older child/teenager/adult. If you are a position where it is something you can do, it is very much needed and can really help change a person's life (obviously), so you should really consider it. I wish more people would consider being organ donors.

Re: Kidney Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Those claims always make me want to smack someone. It might take only 0.1% of the population, but it would take a very specific 0.1%, because matching for organ transplant is actually pretty complex and the outcome of a bad match is pretty horrible.

More potential donors will always be a good thing, but it's nowhere near as easy as the number games people like to pull out when they're feeling self-righteous make it sound.