My Friend Donated Her Kidney to a Complete Stranger

Joy Ellen Sauter
6 min readFeb 24, 2021

I was not OK with it. A lesson is loving.

Photo by Arno Senoner on Unsplash

I broke down when I saw her in a hospital bed wearing the hospital gown. It was just a picture because we live three thousand miles away now. She wasn’t wearing any makeup, getting ready to head into surgery with a smile on her face.

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