{"id":4280,"date":"2022-04-27T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:10:52","slug":"5-big-benefits-of-living-donation-for-the-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/27\/5-big-benefits-of-living-donation-for-the-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Big Benefits of Living Donation for the Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4280\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>You probably have heard of the enormous benefits of a living vs. deceased-donor kidney for the recipient, but did you know that there are real benefits to the donor, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For family members or couples, they are nothing short of dramatic:<br>1.\u00a0<strong>Helping a loved one is an amazing feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0To see a loved one who\u2019s been pale, weak, and often listless for many months or years gradually become their old self again is pretty powerful. Before I donated my kidney to my son in 2006, his 20 months on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidney.org\/atoz\/content\/dialysisinfo\">dialysis<\/a>\u00a0had left him lethargic and depressed; seeing his smile when he came into my hospital room the day after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidney.org\/atoz\/content\/kidney-transplant\">transplant<\/a>\u00a0was unforgettable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidney.org\/newsletter\/5-big-benefits-living-donation-donor\">Read the full story<\/a> from National Kidney Foundation here.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4280\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading You probably have heard of the enormous benefits of a living vs. deceased-donor kidney for the recipient, but did you know that there are real benefits to the donor, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/27\/5-big-benefits-of-living-donation-for-the-donor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5 Big Benefits of Living Donation for the Donor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,2],"tags":[85,50,399],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1419","post_likes_plusCounter":"","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}