University of Utah Health Care medical staff care for transplant donors and transplant patients recently. Members of the U.'s kidney transplant team performed six surgeries last week, a donor chain that was made possible after pediatric dialysis nurse Bryce Garey donated a kidney with no particular recipient in
SALT LAKE CITY — In his work as a nurse in University Hospital's pediatric dialysis unit, Bryce Garey cares for children whose lives are frequently interrupted by treatments.
"It's so hard to see some of these kids. They get so behind in life. They get behind socially, behind physically, in school," said Garey, a married father of two young children.
It was that experience — and media reports of a transplant chain in September — that moved Garey to become an organ donor himself.
Last week, Garey was one of three living donors who were part of a transplant chain that made possible transplants for two children and one adult at University Hospital.
Garey agreed to donate his kidney as a "non-directed donor," meaning there was no specific person in mind to whom he was donating.
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