A Silver Spring mother of five gave her kidney to a stranger in New York who desperately needed one.
Liza Porat glanced at her phone while sitting in her car at a stoplight and saw the request posted on an internet mailing list for her Silver Spring neighborhood. “Needed,” it read, “A kidney for a 41-year-old New York woman.”Porat, a 57-year-old mother of five and lawyer, drove on, and at the next stoplight, she quickly responded: Sure, she’d be willing to go through dozens of tests and procedures, travel, put her work on hold — at times — and see if she was a match.
“She’s enthusiastic, and she puts her heart into everything she does,” said Marian Charlton, a clinical manager for a kidney transplant center in New Jersey who’s worked with Lipschutz. “She approaches everything 100 percent, full on.”Stuart M. Greenstein, a kidney transplant surgeon at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, said Lipschutz is “truly passionate” about working with recipients and donors.
Porat says she didn’t know anything about Lipschutz until she spotted the post for Marianna Ilyasova onIlyasova, a college professor who also has a tax service business, had been suffering with kidney failure for five years and was doing dialysis several times a week. At one point, her health had deteriorated so much that she could hardly urinate.
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