Donor Diaries
Donor Diaries is a podcast about the beauty and messiness of living organ donation. Get ready for some amazing stories about what happens when people decide to share their organs with other people, when people chose to share life. The sharing of kidneys and other organs is an incredibly fascinating topic that teaches a lot about kindness, love, and life! There are over 100,000 people on the kidney transplant waitlist today, and sadly about 13 people die each day waiting for a kidney that they never receive. One in three Americans are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease and one in nine already have kidney disease. Most don’t even know it. Donor Diaries shares unfiltered stories of kidney donation through the voices of living donors and straight talk from transplant experts who are committed to bringing the conversation of living organ donation to the forefront of society, so patients no longer have to die or suffer while waiting for a transplant.
Donor Diaries
A Double Donor’s Story of Loss and Redemption | EP 14
According to United Network of Organ Sharing, only 133 living donors in the entire U.S. have donated both a kidney and a portion of their liver to two different recipients. A few years back, this was very uncommon, but more recently, we have been seeing it in the news more and more. Many transplant centers won’t even entertain the idea of letting someone donate twice, however other transplant centers are taking a second look, and essentially asking, well, why not? If the donor is emotionally and physically fit to donate a second time, then let them donate.
Today’s guest is double donor extraordinaire Lynn Bolduc who donated a kidney and a portion of her liver, both to strangers about 8 years apart. Lynn tells an emotional story about a traumatic experience when she was 14, that ultimately led her down the path of organ donation later in life. Her kidney donation story and her liver donation story are vastly different and illustrate that not all donation stories have the ending that we planned for. Tune in to hear Lynn’s brave, bold, and vulnerable story about inspiring hope.
Links
CrowdSource for Life
1 Year Survival Rate Post Transplant
Missouri Farmer Lives 56 Years Post Transplant
National Kidney Donation Organization