Happy Kidney Day!
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It’s been a whole year since I kissed David goodbye and watched him disappear behind the OR doors at Wake Forest Hospital. David’s living donor kidney donation to Burger seems like a century ago.
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Donating Life 3 - Recovery, Return and Retrospective
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Burger was finally discharged and he and Nancy, too, began a daily walking routine. We met each night for dinner and chatted about the recovery process. Both donor and recipient were doing amazingly well.
Read MoreDonating Life 2… A Saga
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Back in April, further testing had been done at Wake Forest Baptist (WFB) including a tissue match to determine that David and Burger were compatible. Colleen, our Transplant Coordinator and her staff, coordinated all this for us without a hitch. We already knew that the blood types matched and ultimately we learned that David and Burger were a good all-around donor-donee match, but what if they hadn’t been?
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