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Perks of donating a kidney: You get put right at the top of the recipient list if you ever need a new kidney.

When you have the perspective he has, I imagine things that enrage us don't enrage him.

No. It's all billed to the recipient's insurance. There were some stories of donors being denied life insurance but my transplant office says they usually can convince the insurance companies that donors aren't a risk.

Make sure to donate at a good hospital if you can. I only had good experience at OSU.

You just felt tightness? Lucky. I felt like all my organs were painfully out of place for a week. Fine afterwards though. I thought about doing a liver donation but I'm married now and soon to be a dad so maybe one organ donation is enough.

If one kidney is larger than the other they take the smaller one. If they're the same size (as in my case) they take the left one because it's blood vessels are longer and that makes it easier to work with.