“I’m not sure what it is like for other donors, but it’s almost like this magnetic feeling — like an energy — like maybe your body knows that it’s there,” she said of the meeting with her kidney’s recipient.
Brandi Thornton: Living Kidney Donor
"Then I did some soul searching," Libby says. She knew the toll 4 years of dialysis had taken on her husband and on their livelihood. She had been prepared to donate a kidney and decided she still wanted to. "I felt that if I could help someone live a better life, I needed to do it."
Libby Frashier: Living Kidney Donor
"My wife understood," he says. "She told me she would do the same thing if her mom needed her. And my kids said, 'Anything to help Grandma.'"
Martin Gonzales: Living Kidney Donor
I can't describe what it was like to see my wife, a vivacious and energetic triathlete, get sicker and sicker," he says. "I felt absolutely helpless until she was listed. She became my whole focus."
Monte Markley: Living Kidney Donor
"I lived with the willingness to give my life for freedom," he says. "Here, all I had to give was my kidney. I had taken an oath to serve, and I saw this as another path to service."
Shekina Bailey: Living Kidney Donor