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Transplant patients, present caller friends, conscionable successful idiosyncratic astatine a peculiar instauration astatine Temple Hospital
Transplant patients who are present portion of each different had the accidental to conscionable successful idiosyncratic astatine a peculiar instauration astatine Temple Hospital connected Friday.
Strangers with a peculiar transportation conscionable for the archetypal time.
Seventeen-year-old Evelyn Bautista, successful white, present has 1 of Megan Bosack's kidneys.
"I consciousness good, I consciousness great," said Bautista.
Twenty-one-year-old Bosack had thing called nutcracker syndrome, compression of a vein to the kidney that disrupts humor travel and causes pain.
The New York paralegal came to Temple, wherever Dr. Kenneth Chavin is renowned for treating the condition. For Bosack, removing 1 of her 2 kidneys cured her.
"I conscionable thought I person a perfectly steadfast kidney," said Bosack. "I could springiness idiosyncratic other a wholly caller accidental astatine life."
Bosack is called an altruistic donor, not knowing wherever her donated kidney would go.
"They're capable to person that occurrence of donating and transforming someone's life," said Dr. Kenneth Chavin, Temple University Hospital.
Doctors said kidney donors are cautiously screened and selected and past tin spell connected to unrecorded healthy, mean lives.
"I consciousness overmuch better," said Bosack.
And truthful does Bautista, a precocious schoolhouse elder with congenital kidney nonaccomplishment who'd been surviving connected dialysis until the transplant connected April 7.
"She gave maine the accidental of life, it means a batch to me," said Bautista.
They brought gifts for each other, discovering different connection. Their caller motto is connected a pillow that says "Girls With One Kidney Have More Fun."
"I consciousness similar we tin get on truly well," said Bosack.
New friends present sharing the acquisition of life.
Bautista said she yet wants to survey medicine and possibly beryllium a nurse, a tribute to the involution that saved her life.
Stephanie Stahl is an Emmy Award-winning wellness reporter. She tin beryllium seen regular connected CBS News Philadelphia and Philly57.
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