u/Hotcomagirl

My uncle, a physician, has CKD. He is 71. I am 54. I appear to be the only person in my family who is stepping up to be a living donor. I am a parent, a competitive distance runner, and I selfishly care about my health and athletic performance. I don’t want to do this but I do because I love my uncle. His daughter is 41 and hopes to have kids one day so doesn’t want to be a donor. My uncle is super knowledgeable as a physician so if I decide while going through screening that I don’t want to go forward, I feel like he will find out why—I don’t want to do it-so I really feel that I have to do this to save his life, and no one else is stepping up.