“While these are gifts I am unable to ever repay, I live my life every day grateful for their love. Because of their gift, I have remained active and actively employed for 22 years, and along with my wife have raised three wonderful children.”
Read about Walter’s experience living on dialysis and receiving a living donor kidney transplant.
Since her kidney transplant, Nita started practicing yoga, and even opened her own yoga studio.
Whittney’s prognosis was bleak after an aggressive E. coli bacteria infection attacked her kidneys. But through a kidney transplant, she says, “I can just be a normal kid now.”
Betsy Walsh, J.D., M.P.H., 2015-16 president of the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors, has a personal connection to donation. In 1995, she donated a kidney to her older sister.