March 1 -- It doesn’t get much more selfless than donating a kidney, but that’s just what professional golfer Beth Allen was scheduled to do today.
Golfweek’s Beth Ann Baldry described an “extraordinary” Allen, who offered to free her brother, Dan, from daily 10-hour dialysis treatments by giving him one of her kidneys. It will be Dan’s second kidney transplant in 12 years, with the 38-year-old brother of 29-year-old Beth undergoing dialysis for five years.
Read Baldry’s account of a remarkable family and the gift that Beth Allen will bestow on her brother, who called her offering “beyond words.” The planned surgery would launch National Kidney Month. Allen should need some six weeks to recover and hoped to return to the Ladies European Tour in May.
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Cool story. Hope it all works out for both of them. And who knew we had a “National Kidney Month” ?
courtgolf - March 1, 2011
It takes a lot of guts to do this...I knew one guy
who was giving bone marrow to his sister who had cancer…Painful as hell, with no assurance it would even work….Thankfully turned out great….cancer went into remission and been that way for 3 years…That’s why, every morning, I look in the mirror and thank my lucky stars for all my blessings in my life time….STUB
thinker - March 1, 2011
It's something one would do without thinking
for a loved one.
Easingwold - March 2, 2011
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