Kidney donor and recipient meet each other for the first time
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- Опубліковано 14 кві 2024
- Just hours after their operations, kidney donor Claydon and kidney recipient Sonya had a chance to meet each other for the first time. Full story: ucla.in/4cUbQFv
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Selfless people rarely exist, here’s one. 💚
Thank you for your kindness!
May God bless you abundantly!
So touching, bless his heart
Thank you. You are so kind and special.
Amazing to see! Shoutout to Dr. Veale and the amazing team at UCLA. It's because of donors like the gentleman in the video that I've received my kidney transplant 3 years ago. What a blessing!
Wow my heart melt 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
God bless you both
❤
Why would a stranger donate his kidney?
To save someone’s life.
I don't how it works but where I live living unrelated donation is legally banned. Being a blood, bone marrow or gamete donor is one thing but donating a non regenerating solid organ donation is different. It has 20% chance of surgical complications, definite loss of 20% of total renal function and 1% chance of needing renal transplant for himself. Being completely altruistic to that of extent is unheard.
@@parag1210 you must live in a shithole
It's part of a matching program. His brother needed a kidney but he was not a match for him. So the gentleman in the video decided to be part of a donation chain. He would donate his kidney to the chain while his brother received the match he needs from another stranger. My own brother was ready to do the same for me. I received my kidney transplant at UCLA 3 years ago from the same surgeon in the beginning of the video. What a wonder thing to do and UCLA has an amazing team!
@@parag1210 From the UCLA newsletter:
Saving lives with kidney exchange
April is National Donate Life Month. But the month doesn’t just celebrate the selfless act of donating an organ, eye or tissue after death. Living donors also save lives by giving an organ or piece of an organ.
Clay Garcelli saw firsthand how important living donation is when his brother Carter needed a new kidney. Garcelli’s kidney was not a match. But he learned that he could help his brother indirectly through the UCLA Health Kidney Exchange Program.
More than 100,000 people in the United States need a kidney transplant. UCLA Health’s program helps expand the pool of donors by coordinating medical swaps that simultaneously help two or more people in need of kidney transplants.
Garcelli donated his kidney to a stranger, and in return, his brother received a new kidney from a compatible donor. But Garcelli truly felt the magnitude of his donation when he met the recipient of his donated kidney.
Kidneys aren’t the only donation you can make while alive. Living donors can also donate blood stem cells, part of the intestine, part of the liver and part of the pancreas.
All it takes is willingness and an innovative transplant program.