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Dialysis nurse donates kidney to patient
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Contributor | Thomas Walker |
Last Edited | Thomas Walker Mar 18, 2005 03:04pm |
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Media | TV News - CNN |
News Date | Friday, March 18, 2005 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Kay Plozizka found it hard to see her patients suffering when she was blessed with such good health.
So the dialysis center nurse offered one of her kidneys to 58-year-old Joe Cline, who accepted. The transplant surgery was done March 8.
"I am a religious person. That had some role in it," said Plozizka, of Litchfield, Illinois, about an hour east of St. Louis. "But I wanted to give back to someone a gift like the gift that I had gotten."
Plozizka said she knew after becoming a dialysis nurse five years ago that she would probably donate a kidney to a patient one day. Her only requirement was that the recipient had to commit to a lifetime regimen of anti-rejection medicine.
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