The Daily Reflector | K.J. Williams
Early Christmas gifts came in the form of organ donations in North Carolina’s first simultaneous kidney transplant involving three sets of donors and recipients at Pitt County Memorial Hospital earlier this month.
The transplants were the result of an exchange in which three donors who weren’t good matches for their loved ones were matches for other people and agreed to switch, donating to someone else who was able to provide a donor in return.
The effort to find donors who could switch with each other was driven by Stephanie Richardson of Hollister, a donor recipient whose mother, Darlene Williams, of Warrenton was not considered a good match.
Williams agreed to provide a kidney for someone else if that person could find a match for her 31-year-old daughter.
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