This week marks Living Donation Week, which is all about honouring the people who have sacrificed parts of their lives and bodies to share the gift of life, while they are still living theirs.
Anne Halpin did just that. Halpin does not know where her kidney is now, but she hopes her donation gave someone their life back.
“I hope it’s peeing up a storm for somebody, giving somebody their life back, taking them off the dialysis, giving them the opportunity to travel and do the things that are hard to do when you’re on dialysis.”
Her donation journey started when her friend, Sean Delaney, needed a kidney transplant. Halpin has worked in a lab for more than 30 years with Alberta Health Services where they match people up for transplants, so she is not stranger to the process. But it was the push she needed to make the life-saving donation.
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