The Goodness of America
Here, Take My Kidney
Two teachers in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, set off an organ-donor chain last year after volunteering to donate their kidneys to someone in need. The two are now using their stories to advocate for living kidney donation, Today.com reported.
Neil Emmott was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease in 2001, and in 2016, his kidney function dropped below 20 percent, making a kidney transplant a necessity. Unfortunately, Neil’s wife, Lisa, and his brother-in-law had both been rejected from donating their own kidneys because of minor health reasons, and the family began to feel a sense of urgency.
Though the Emmott family had kept Neil’s health problems relatively quiet, the revelation compelled his wife to begin to confide in a few people at her daughter’s school, Bethany Christian School, including her daughter’s teacher, Allison Malouf. Just eight years earlier, Malouf’s husband had donated a kidney, so Malouf was familiar with the process. But Lisa could not have predicted Malouf’s response to her family’s plight. “I had complete peace and a strong desire to donate,” Malouf told Today.com. “Being their daughter’s teacher, I desperately wanted to help this wonderful family.”
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