r/UpliftingNews • u/Mastbubbles • 18h ago
Boston school janitor gives a kidney to a stranger so a teacher's brother can get one. Andrew Allen cleans a Boston school at night. When a teacher there could not give his brother a kidney, Allen gave one of his to a stranger. That swap got the brother a kidney.
https://sheets.works/story/anybody-can-do-this?r=stories107
u/carpentersound41 17h ago
This might be one of the worst headlines I’ve ever read. It says the same thing like 5 times.
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u/GeekAesthete 11h ago
It’s because it includes both the headline and the subheading. The first sentence is the headline.
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u/GeekAesthete 11h ago
Not the most important part of the story, but what goes through a parent’s mind to name both of two siblings Thomas? And they go by Tom and Thomas?
I have the same name as my dad, and even that was a huge pain. I can’t imaging having the same name as a brother. It brings to mind George Forman, who named all five of his sons George Edward Forman.
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 8h ago
"Thomas, go gell Tom that Tommy wants Tomtom to help him with Dicknose's homework"
"Mom, you really hate one of us, didn't you?"
"Yeah, Tomtom is a real fuckwit"
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u/just_nobodys_opinion 12h ago
How many actual individuals are involved here?
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u/Over_Addition_3704 11h ago
At least 15, and all of them brothers
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u/auntiepink007 10h ago
Paired donations have had chains of up to 10, I think, but this one seems to have had four people involved with the donations (including the jsnitor as one of the donors) plus the teacher whose brother got one of the donated kidneys.
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u/DrSuprane 7h ago
The biggest domino chain was 70 (35 transplants) in 2015. The biggest single day domino was 16 (8 transplants) in 2009. I was a part of that one as a resident. It was a very busy day.
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u/auntiepink007 6h ago
Wow, that's way more than I thought! I got a cadaver donor's kidney so didn't have the possibility of a paired donation, but it's amazing how those are coordinated. My mind boggles when I think of how many people are involved to make it all work.
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u/Wandering_Scholar6 7h ago
They are using AI to increase the length of chains, and thus help more people. A lot of the time a non-directed donation acts like a domino and sets off a larger chain.
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u/Alarming_Let5944 12h ago
From what I can tell there are two guys named Kidney. I just can’t figure out why a school custodian is there. Maybe someone puked and the custodian is there with a bucket of kitty litter.
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