Brotherly love – Live kidney donation
14 March 2024
A Goldfields truck driver has provided the ultimate act of love by donating a kidney to his brother.
It was a routine blood test that unveiled Kim Gooding's kidneys were not working well, and he had chronic kidney disease.
The father of two boy's health deteriorated quickly after the diagnosis, and he underwent regular dialysis at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's Renal Unit. However, with little improvement it became obvious he would need a kidney transplant.
For around 1,800 Australians currently on the organ transplant waitlist, it can be a matter of life and death. There are an additional 14,000 people on dialysis, some of whom may benefit from a kidney transplant.
Kim's older brother Andrew said, we never had a conversation about it, I just went and got tested and I was a match.
It was the ultimate gift, a second shot at life, a live kidney transplant just before Christmas 2023.
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