After altruistically donating her kidney in a swap that saved the lives of two people she didn't know, Nancy Miller continues to educate people on living organ donation.
For 20 years, Nancy Miller always thought about the idea of organ donation. In 2010, she donated a kidney that saved not one, but two lives.
Sunday she will participate in the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland's 10th annual Baltimore Kidney Walk at the Baltimore Zoo.
Working in a dialysis unit at a hospital in the 1980s before living donation was an option, Miller said she watched a lot of people die waiting for kidneys.
In 2001, she read about the ability for donors to give kidneys and thought it was a great idea after seeing so many people suffer during her time working at the hospital.
"In 2004 I really put it into thought and decided, 'I could do this,'" she said. "I prayed and researched and read and it took me four years to decide to do it. One day I woke up and decided I would do it."
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