Personal Narrative: The Alliance For Paired Donation

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Each hospital visit required a hospital stay over-night, while all the necessary tests were completed, and where I had a dialysis treatment. Each hospital visit, whilst emotionally draining and exhausting, was simul-taneously charged with hope and possibility.
Steve left no stone unturned. He became my health advocate, and my voice, when I was too weak to speak.
We registered in Alabama for the regular kidney transplant cadaver list, as well as the paired donation list. This was an emerging trend for people waiting for a kidney transplant. Providing they had someone will-ing to donate a kidney on their behalf who was not a match for them, but would be willing to pay it forward for someone else.
The Alliance for Paired Donation was founded by

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