I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
November 24, 2024, 08:38:11 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
532606 Posts in 33561 Topics by 12678 Members
Latest Member: astrobridge
* Home Help Search Login Register
+  I Hate Dialysis Message Board
|-+  Dialysis Discussion
| |-+  Dialysis: News Articles
| | |-+  Stranger from Facebook gives a kidney to save another's life
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: Stranger from Facebook gives a kidney to save another's life  (Read 1313 times)
okarol
Administrator
Member for Life
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 100933


Photo is Jenna - after Disneyland - 1988

WWW
« on: December 31, 2011, 11:06:40 AM »


ktla.com

Stranger from Facebook gives a kidney to save another's life

Transplant goes well, organ reported healthy and working

Marni Hughes

Q13 FOX News reporter

8:18 PM PST, December 30, 2011

SEATTLE

Facebook connects millions of people every day. But for one local man, the social website saved his life.

And he has a total stranger to thank.

At her hospital bed at the University of Washington Medical Center, Allie Carr, 26, is recovering from surgery.  “I feel pretty good considering I just had a vital organ taken out of me," she joked.

Carr donated her kidney to a man she met just five months ago on Facebook.

The man’s name was Dan Garrett – and the page read simply, “My husband needs a new kidney.”

“We'd gone through several people in the family, so we'd run out of that, and it was the next thing I could think to do," said Megin Garrett, Dan’s wife. The couple live in Yelm, as does Carr.

"I saw it (the post), I knew it was something i had to do," Carr said. "That was Thursday and by Friday I was getting tested."

Carr and Dan Garrett were a match.

And last Wednesday, Carr gave the Garretts one of her kidneys.

Dan Garrett is doing well, and the kidney is healthy and working.

"She's (Carr’s) really amazing, to go to a stranger to give someone a piece of yourself literally and she's given me and Dan a chance to have a normal life, a honeymoon, having children," Megin Garrett said.

Carr was modest about providing a life-saving gift.

"I wanted to do something meaningful, and if I could give this to them, then I think that everyone should consider it."


ktla.com/news/nationworld/kcpq-stranger-gives-a-kidney-to-save-anothers-life-20111230,0,5786206.story
Logged


Admin for IHateDialysis 2008 - 2014, retired.
Jenna is our daughter, bad bladder damaged her kidneys.
Was on in-center hemodialysis 2003-2007.
7 yr transplant lost due to rejection.
She did PD Sept. 2013 - July 2017
Found a swap living donor using social media, friends, family.
New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
Living Donors Rock! http://www.livingdonorsonline.org -
News video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7KvgQDWpU
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
 

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP SMF 2.0.17 | SMF © 2019, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!