Two Colorado kidney donors finish a 17-mile Grand Canyon hike
Living kidney donors Chris and Vicki Sullivan finished a 17-mile Grand Canyon hike with other donors. They want more people to learn what living donation involves.
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Chris and Vicki Sullivan, a Colorado couple who have each donated a kidney, finished a 17-mile Grand Canyon hike with other living donors, 9NEWS reported on October 29. They are using the trip to encourage people to learn what living donation involves.
The station's video is the account of a finished hike, not a medical recommendation. A living donor gives one kidney and keeps the other. The Sullivans' point, as 9NEWS framed it, is that people considering that step can ask questions before they decide.
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Chris and Vicki Sullivan live in Colorado, and each of them has donated a kidney. In October they finished a 17-mile hike in the Grand Canyon with other people who have also donated a kidney. 9NEWS said they want more people to learn about living donation, which means a healthy person gives one kidney to someone whose kidneys are failing. A person can live with one kidney. The hike was a way to show that donors can still do hard physical things. The canyon trail they used drops a long way and climbs back out in one day.
- Why can a person give one kidney and still be healthy?
- What is the difference between donating after death and donating while you are alive?
- Why would a hard hike be a way to tell that story?
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