Inspired By Daughter's Life-Saving Kidney Donor, Father Returns the Favor and Becomes a Donor
A Welshman decided to donate his kidney to an unknown patient after his daughter received a donated one in a potentially life-saving procedure.
When Arfon Jones’ daughter Seren became seriously ill and had to have both her kidneys removed, he did what any father would do and signed up to be a donor.
However the surgeons determined that his kidney would not match, and for months Seren sat on a dialysis machine 10 hours a night.
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It was while Seren was awaiting a transplant that Arfon learned more about how to be a living organ donor, and that a normal person can lead a healthy life with just one kidney.
“After Seren got her new kidney, she was told that I could get off the living donor list and that’s when I had a very strange experience,” Arfon told the BBC.
“It was as if I heard a voice telling me ‘there is someone else who needs your kidney’ and I just felt that I had to stay on the list.”
Arfon became a kidney donor at 70-years-old just before Christmas, remarking he had given someone a very nice present. He doesn’t know their identity as it wasn’t a friend or family member, but he knows they’re doing well.
Link - https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inspired-by-daughters-live-saving-kindey-donors-father-returns-the-favor-and-becomes-donor/
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The world can sure use more people like this man. What a noble act to donate to a complete stranger.