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Offer spawns two-way kidney swap

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 01/19/10

Everyone told Nancy Miller she was crazy when she announced her plans to donate her kidney to somebody - anybody - who needed it.

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Glen Burnie resident Nancy Miller, left, checks on Cindy Wickesser, a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Both women underwent kidney surgery this month. Miller, who originally planned to donate to Wickesser, gave her kidney to a Minnesota man, whose wife gave hers to Wickesser.
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But she had worked at a dialysis unit before and wanted to keep others from enduring the ordeal she witnessed daily.

The Glen Burnie resident approached the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore with her plans last year, around the same time that a co-worker's wife was being treated for kidney failure. Miller wanted to give her kidney to Cindy Wickesser, but they weren't a match.

But Miller matched a man in Minneapolis who needed a kidney, and Wickesser matched his wife,...

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