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You tell your kids a lot of things, this testing. They told her that there is
and they listen or they don’t listen. But something on her liver, kidney, and spine
and that she was therefore not a candi-
when you do something, they pay date for donation. They advised her to
attention. I would do it again in a contact her doctor right away. If she got
minute; it was an amazing experience! tested and was cleared of all their find-
ings, they would reconsider her. There
“It was something I had thought She was the worst match of any of them, were no other good candidates at the
about,” shares Miriam. “I had seen the according to the antigen test, but after a time for Eve.
Renewal ads out of New York, but I always second round of more extensive testing –
said that, if I do it, I am doing it in Balti- consisting of an entire day of testing by Miriam will never forget that terrify-
more. So, when Rabbi Frand mentioned specialists, such as a urologist and psy- ing phone call, but there was one good
at his annual teshuva drasha nine years chologist – the other candidates gradual- thing about it. “I had very mixed feelings
ago that someone in Baltimore needed a ly dropped out, leaving her to donate her in the beginning,” she recalls. “At this
kidney, I said to myself, ‘I said I would do kidney to Eve Messing. point, though, I really hoped I would be
it,’ and so I did. I had zero pain.” chosen, because that would mean that
Miriam received a call from the Uni- everything was all right with me.” But
Miriam was one of five potential do- versity while she sat in her parked car in the doctors told her that they wouldn’t
nors tested at University of Maryland. the Seven Mile Market parking lot after know if her kidney could be used until
the surgery until they removed it. “When
we went for the pre-op, the doctor said,
‘If it is a Stage 1 or 2 cancer, I’ll cut it
out and use the kidney; if it’s Stage 3 of
4, we toss the kidney.’ It turns out that
it wasn’t cancerous at all,” says Miriam.
After the transplant, Miriam said to
Eve, “You got a kidney – it should last
until you’re 120 – but the mitzva I got
will last forever.”
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and they listen or they don’t listen. But something on her liver, kidney, and spine
and that she was therefore not a candi-
when you do something, they pay date for donation. They advised her to
attention. I would do it again in a contact her doctor right away. If she got
minute; it was an amazing experience! tested and was cleared of all their find-
ings, they would reconsider her. There
“It was something I had thought She was the worst match of any of them, were no other good candidates at the
about,” shares Miriam. “I had seen the according to the antigen test, but after a time for Eve.
Renewal ads out of New York, but I always second round of more extensive testing –
said that, if I do it, I am doing it in Balti- consisting of an entire day of testing by Miriam will never forget that terrify-
more. So, when Rabbi Frand mentioned specialists, such as a urologist and psy- ing phone call, but there was one good
at his annual teshuva drasha nine years chologist – the other candidates gradual- thing about it. “I had very mixed feelings
ago that someone in Baltimore needed a ly dropped out, leaving her to donate her in the beginning,” she recalls. “At this
kidney, I said to myself, ‘I said I would do kidney to Eve Messing. point, though, I really hoped I would be
it,’ and so I did. I had zero pain.” chosen, because that would mean that
Miriam received a call from the Uni- everything was all right with me.” But
Miriam was one of five potential do- versity while she sat in her parked car in the doctors told her that they wouldn’t
nors tested at University of Maryland. the Seven Mile Market parking lot after know if her kidney could be used until
the surgery until they removed it. “When
we went for the pre-op, the doctor said,
‘If it is a Stage 1 or 2 cancer, I’ll cut it
out and use the kidney; if it’s Stage 3 of
4, we toss the kidney.’ It turns out that
it wasn’t cancerous at all,” says Miriam.
After the transplant, Miriam said to
Eve, “You got a kidney – it should last
until you’re 120 – but the mitzva I got
will last forever.”
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