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| Tony Brady (right) with kidney donor Ken Kuiper. |
When Ken Kuiper found out that a business acquaintance he saw once a year was on dialysis and needed a new kidney, he took action. He contacted Fernando “Tony” Brady, and found out they shared the same blood type — O positive. Ken, who is from Florida, then sent a blood sample to the University of Maryland Medical Center, where Tony, who is from New York, had decided to have his transplant.
The nurse who called Ken with the results of his blood matching said if she did not know better that Tony and Ken could be brothers because there was no reaction between their blood when it was mixed together.
Ken’s and Tony’s families have become very close through this experience, and they made a pact to “Pay it Forward” by educating others about kidney transplantation.
See moving video recapping this long-distance transplant.
