Name: Donating a Kidney to a Stranger | National Geographic
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I think the coolest part about donating a kidney to a stranger

is I may have absolutely nothing in common with my recipient.

Organ transplants cross racial divides, social divides,

It's such a visceral reminder of how we really are completely

In a week and a half, I'm going to be giving my kidney

I'm a long distance runner, a recent rock climber,

I've lived in two places in my life, Wyoming and New York.

I just remember traveling home on the subway.

was getting pretty overwhelmed with the news.

And I heard this amazing story from this woman

Christine Gentry on one of my favorite podcasts called Risk!

And she found out that by donating her kidney,

And I just remember it was one of those crying-on-the-subway

I was overwhelmed by the power of the story

but also just immediately felt like, that's my thing.

We are eight days away from my operation,

with Dr. Del Pizzo, who will be my surgeon.

I am trying to imagine that this is something like a race day

it's going to be like, what the recovery is going to be like.

But I feel like I'm going in to meet with my coach.

We are going to use your left kidney for the donation.

Both of your kidneys work exactly the same.

Your body's not going to miss one more than the other.

And the surgery is done through one little incision

It's called laparoendoscopic single-site surgery.

Your body won't recognize that you have one kidney versus two.

And it won't adversely affect the rest of your life

If it did, we wouldn't let you or anyone else

getting your kidney on the 19th, but that person

is going to come off the list of people waiting

for a kidney in the country, and everyone else on the list

A non-directed kidney donor is someone like myself

The power of that gift is that I'm giving a kidney,

And what that can do is unlock all of this potential

So there are all of these pairs floating out there,

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overwhelmed

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