同事之间的一次闲聊拯救了各自丈夫的性命

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高中二年级

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人际关系

蒂娅·温布希和苏珊·埃利斯都在亚特兰大儿童保健中心工作，而她们的丈夫当时都急需一个新肾。两人在卫生间的一次不经意的闲聊让两对夫妇紧密地联系在一起。

Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis both work at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and both of their husbands were in dire need of a new kidney. For Tia and Susan, it was generally just smiles and hellos when they passed by one another. But a five-minute bathroom conversation last September changed everything. “We crossed paths in the restroom and we were washing our hands and we started having a conversation about where my husband and I were in the transplant evaluation (移植评估)process,” Tia recalled. “But with that we started talking about blood types.”

蒂亚·温布什和苏珊·埃利斯都在亚特兰大儿童保健中心工作，他们的丈夫都急需一个新的肾。对蒂亚和苏珊来说，当他们经过时，通常只是微笑和问候。但是去年9月在浴室里五分钟的谈话改变了一切。“我们在洗手间穿过小路，正在洗手，我们开始谈论我和我丈夫在移植评估过程中的位置，” 蒂亚回忆道。“但是我们开始谈论血型。”

They soon discovered Susan was compatible with Tia’s husband, Rodney, and Tia was compatible with Susan’s husband, Lance. “It was like a light bulb moment went off in my head,” Tia said. “What if we can donate our kidneys to each other’s husbands?” They both agreed. Tia went back to her desk and set everything up with her donor coordinator .

他们很快发现苏珊和蒂亚的丈夫罗德尼相处融洽，蒂亚和苏珊的丈夫兰斯相处融洽。“这就像一个灯泡瞬间在我脑海中消失了，”蒂亚说。“如果我们能把我们的肾脏捐献给彼此的丈夫呢？” 他们都同意了。蒂亚回到她的办公桌上，和她的捐赠者协调员一起安排好一切。

Seven months later, Tia, Rodney, Susan and Lance underwent a paired kidney exchange transplant. All four surgeries went smoothly and Lance’s and Rodney’s bodies accepted their new kidneys.

七个月后，蒂亚、罗德尼、苏珊和兰斯接受了配对肾脏交换移植。四次手术都进行得很顺利，兰斯和罗德尼的尸体接受了他们的新肾脏。

“It is very rare for two immunologically ( 免疫地) incompatible pairs to propose their own paired exchange and actually be a match for one another,” Christina Klein, a transplant nephrologist(肾病专家) at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, said in a statement. “I have been a transplant nephrologist since 2008 working in active living donation and paired kidney exchange programs, and I have personally never seen this happen before.”

“两对免疫不相容的配对很少提出他们自己的配对交换，并且实际上是彼此的匹配，” 亚特兰大皮埃蒙特医院移植肾病专家克里斯蒂娜·克莱因说，在一份声明中说。“自2008年以来，我一直是一名移植肾病专家，从事积极生活捐赠和配对肾脏交换项目，我个人从未见过这种情况发生。”