Main Content
Kidney Transplant
Living Kidney Donation
About the Kidneys
What is a Living Donor?
Types of Living Donation
Benefits and Risks of Living Donation
Testing
About Testing
Blood Pressure, Blood Typing, and Blood Tests
Other Tests
Psychosocial Assessment
Questions to Think About
Transplant Recipient Information
Living Donation
About Living Donation
Transplant Tourism
Deceased Donation
Transplant Workup for Recipients
Preparing for Your Transplant
Getting Ready
Transplant Surgery
Medications
Medicines After Your Transplant
After Your Transplant
Your Transplant Team
Pregnancy After Transplant
Organ and Tissue Donation Registry
Donor and Recipient Stories
Waiting for an available kidney can often take many years for people with end-stage kidney disease.
Living kidney donation is one option to many who are eligible for a kidney transplant. One of the most important benefits of having a kidney from a living donor is that the living donation can often happen much sooner than a transplant from a deceased donor.
The following stories provide a look inside the lives of some living donors and kidney transplant recipients. They talk about how family and friends came together to help each other.
Linda and Jane share a laugh and a special connection through living kidney donation. This is the story of this special connection.
See Linda and Jane’s living donor story.
Scott Barr didn’t hesitate when his sister, Lexi, asked him to donate his kidney to her. “It’s family. You just do it. No questions asked.”
See Lexi and Scott’s living donor strory.
The Kidney Paired Donation program allowed this couple to give, and receive, the gift of life.
See Lori and Rob’s Kidney Paired Donation story.
Go to Top