Guy: I paid an absurdly small price in donating, given how much I was able to help others
Since donating his kidney to a stranger, Guy says: “Donating [a kidney] was remarkably easy. By the time I returned to work it would often feel like a dream.”
Since donating his kidney to a stranger, Guy says: “Donating [a kidney] was remarkably easy. By the time I returned to work it would often feel like a dream.”
Sarah donated a kidney to a stranger in 2022 and found the testing process interesting and all staff involved friendly and encouraging.
Having been a blood donor for some time, Juliette decided the next step for her would be to donate a kidney to a stranger.
Rich, a GP who lives in Nottingham, donated his kidney to a stranger in 2022, after reading about ‘effective altruism’ in an economics book. He matched into a donor with three recipients.
Paediatric Emergency Doctor and mother of three, Tessa, donated her kidney to a stranger last winter. She admits that despite having sedated many patients, she was apprehensive about the operation but recovered well and ‘doesn’t feel any different living with just one kidney’.
John Burns, an adult English teacher from Bromley, donated his kidney in 2019 at Guy’s Hospital in London. Here he shares his story: “I am originally from the North East but came south, initially to university in Brighton, followed by drama school. I’m a teacher, and although this comes first and I have a role […]
Before teacher Rachel gave her spare kidney to someone she didn’t know, she already knew rather more than she wanted about the process. Her introduction came through a friend who worked on the dialysis ward in a Nottingham hospital and through whom she had learnt how unpleasant that is. But then, out of the blue, […]
Nicholas Crace is a former charity director from Hampshire, gave a kidney to a stranger in spring, 2012. He was, at the time, the oldest person in the UK to have done so at aged 83 – although there have now been older donors. Nicholas Crace had good health and no dependents when his wife, […]
David, from Devon, a retired civil servant and lay magistrate, donated a kidney in 2010 at the age of 67. Probably the most frequent question I have been asked has been, “Why?” For me, this was fairly simple and straightforward; I believe that if you are in a position to help someone else less […]
Paul, a GP from Surrey and Give a Kidney Trustee, gave a kidney in 2008, at the age of 53. I still find it difficult to say exactly why or when I decided to look into the possibility of donating a kidney. My first job as a junior doctor in hospital in the 70’s was on […]
Di is from West Berkshire and an altruistic kidney donor who has written a blog about donating her kidney. In 2010 I donated a kidney to someone I did not know. A friend of mine in the United States donated one early in 2006, and that was the first I heard that you could. Immediately […]
Dr Chris Burns-Cox, a consultant physician from Gloucestershire, donated a kidney in 2010 at the age of 72. I had been a doctor for 50 years and still felt a pity for the suffering of mankind – but also was aware how enormously fortunate I had been in my own good health. These were good […]