Two south suburban residents recently shared their lives with their spouses by becoming living organ donors and giving up a kidney.
Gelila Tekeste recovers in the hospital after donating a kidney to her husband, Mike Haddon, on Dec. 26, 2023, at University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago. The Markham residents have been married for 17 years. Phil Allen’s 25th anniversary present to his wife, Meghan, will be hard to top — he gave her one of his kidneys.
Meghan, an inventory analyst, said a blood pressure issue damaged her kidney. Last spring, her kidney function was at 35% but by midsummer it was down to 20% and then 14%. At that point, she would have gone on the transplant list, where patients can linger for five years or more. Luckily, their recovery was fairly rapid, with Meghan, adding that she feels “fantastic” now, and they heartily recommend other kidney patients try this donation method.
She said a higher power was involved in her donation. “Honestly, I would say it was God’s work. It wasn’t me,” said Gelila, an application developer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “I am really terrified about needles, and they can never find my veins. Every time I do lab work I’m stressed about it for a few days before the appointment.”
“We have two kidneys and we can live fine with one kidney. Why not give one? It’s a surgery that has been done many times successfully in the United States,” she said. “And he’s my husband. He’s an amazing person and amazing husband and amazing dad. Of course we’re going to share our lives and help each other as much as we can.”
“Came to find out I should never have done that because it was worse for me than going to the center. The numbers keep going down, trying to increase fluid in my body,” Mike said. “The process was extremely long and was every day, eight and nine and a half hours a day and you have to be in bed.” “I offer it to all my patients,” he said. “A donor doesn’t necessarily care if they have a big scar or a small scar. It doesn’t make them any healthier or smarter or stronger, so if we can do the surgery with a little better technique and cosmetics, I feel confident offering them a more surgical approach.”
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