Live Donor Clinic

Last night, UC Davis Medical Center hosted a Live Donor Clinic in a conference room in a hotel next to the hospital. The head of the transplant center had a talk (with a horrible slideshow, poor people had no idea how to use computers lol), followed by the head transplant surgeon. It was a little informative, mostly boring, and quite hard to understand since they both had heavy accents lol. That's all fine, they know what they're doing in their main jobs and that's the important part. The lead of the live donor center talked a little next and then we were all introduced to a panel of 4 sets of donors/recipients. There were a pair of young brothers, a husband and wife, a brother and sister, and an older pair of brothers. Each person talked for a bit about their experience throughout the process, as well as saying many good things about UCDMC. They were very emotional, which is understandable considering how big of an event it is, and all very encouraging. Having done my own research over and over since all this happened, I didn't really learn anything last night, but seeing the emotional aspect of it from the donor/recipient point of view did help. I was able to talk to a few of the panelists afterwards also and discuss how dialysis affected them, among other things.