Donate a kidney? A father's fears, a friend's devotion

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-kidney-donation-wyoming-20130131,0,2517962.story

Donate a kidney? A father's fears, a friend's devotion
By John M. Glionna

Carla Wensky came to her father last year for a word of advice. The woman from the small Wyoming town of Powell wanted to donate something she said she didn’t really need, that she could live without.

One of her kidneys.

Wensky’s good friend of 10 years, Kelly Eckerdt, had a kidney disease, and without a transplant or dialysis, she eventually would die. Wensky said she couldn’t let that happen. That’s when she asked her father about giving one of her organs away.

“I said, ‘Oh, no, please don’t do that,’ ” Ralph Wensky told The Times. “But she insisted. She said, ‘Dad, I’ve got two kidneys and I only need one. I really want to do this.’ ”

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