'I hope he would be really proud.'
It’s tragic to lose a parent at any age, especially as a child. So, when two Illinois sisters lost their father they wanted to find a way to honor him — so they decided to donate their kidneys to strangers in need.
Hannah and Bethany Goralski’s father, Mark, died in September 2018 after a battle with Crohn’s disease and subsequent kidney failure. Bethany had been prepared to donate her kidney to him but he was too sick to be considered a candidate for surgery,Both sisters decided to undergo procedures a day apart hoping another family wouldn’t have to go through a similar situation. Hannah called Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Illinois to set up their surgeries a month after her father died.
“Knowing a lot of people who have been affected by organ transplant, it felt selfish to keep my kidney,” she said.“You are just in a lull and a loss and you’re thinking about what am I going to do to stop thinking about this person. My dad was always giving, he was always helping others and I thought, what a great way to honor him.”
Over 100,000 kidney disease patients are on transplant lists across the nation, with less than 20,000 transplants being performed annually,. In order to be eligible to receive a kidney transplant, you must have chronic irreversible kidney disease and either need to be on dialysis or require dialysis in the near future and be healthy enough to go through the surgery itself.“We just want to make sure two less families had to go through what we went through,” Bethany said.
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