This week we have a story from a woman named Catriona Ni Aolain. Her friends and family call her Kate. Kate’s story, on the surface, looks like the story of a hero - a heroine. She does something incredibly generous. After learning that a woman in her neighborhood needs a kidney donation, Kate decides to donate her own kidney. She goes through with it, gets the operation, and gives away one of her kidneys. But it’s not so simple. The emotions that Kate ends up having aren’t what she expects them to be. 

Content: kidney transplant, kidney donation

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Produced by Jamie Yuenger and Piet Hurkmans.

Our show’s musical intro and outro is taken from the track “Thursday” by the independent artist Nick Takénobu Ogawa. You can listen and support his music on bandcamp here.

Other music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions

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