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Podcast: Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
Episode: Carol Offen and Betsy Crais: Living Organ Donations: The Insider’s Guide for Donors and Recipients
Description: Carol Offen and Betsy Crais know all too well the exhilaration, separately, of being a living donor and a 2-time organ recipient.Carol’s adult, college-age son was in need of a kidney. Carol became his donor. Betsy Crais’s evaluation for gastric problems in her thirties revealed polycystic kidney disease. When she was in her fifties she became the grateful recipient of a kidney donation from a living donor. Many years later, she required a 2nd kidney and, to everyone’s surprise, a liver. Again a living donor stepped...