Relying on the kindness of strangers

How many health conditions rely on the kindness of strangers for help?
This is our daughter Jenna. She needs a type O kidney donor.
Please share. Thank you!

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

~ Aesop

Advantages to being a living kidney donor:

No medals. No ticker tape parades. Just the everlasting thanks of another human being.

Living donors make miracles happen!

A quote from the 1965 NBC documentary entitled "Who Shall Live?" narrated by Edwin Newman. In those early days of dialysis technology, only a few patients could be treated, and even then at great cost. The demand greatly exceeded the capacity to treat patients, and some means of selection was needed. The highly controversial decision-making process had anonymous committee members deliberating over the merits of each case. The documentary examined the troubling questions underlying decisions by the committee. Should patients with children get priority? Those who went to church? Those who had the most productive jobs?

Thanksgiving reminds me of what a joyful November we had 5 years ago, when Patrice, a stranger turned friend, offered to donate to Jenna. The surgery date was set for the following January, 2007. My heart is full of gratitude, knowing that a person could be so generous, so selfless, and willing to give our daughter a kidney. There's never enough ways to show or say thanks for what Patrice did. But I wanted to mention her - we are forever in awe of her loving gift.

And even though Jenna lost much of the kidney function through rejection, she has been stable nearly 2 years afterwards, Patrice's Brave Little Kidney still keeps running, steady and strong. We have a lot to be grateful for.

Jenna's 26th birthday - with her brother James