“If There Is Fallout, So Be It”: Son Declines Kidney Donor Test For Father In Late 70s

Donating a kidney is often called the “gift of life,” but it is also one of the most complicated and life-changing decisions. You basically have a say whether someone else gets to celebrate another birthday and sit around the dinner table with their family again or not. This kind of pressure can be overwhelming for anyone, even for this man who said he had been helping take care of his dad almost all his life. But when faced with a choice to be tested as a kidney donor for his father, he struggled with some really hard-hitting thoughts.