This post is a bit late. It’s something I wrote for my one month kidneyversary. It was last month.

One cold January morning in the midst of a snowstorm two anonymous strangers in two different states, one in Pennsylvania, the other in Minnesota, laid on an operating table. Taking the plunge, together, risking it all. With one dream: life. One to give life, one to receive.

Sometimes I’ll be walking along a street and out of nowhere suddenly remember that someone else is living with a piece of me inside of them. Alive and well because I gave a piece of myself away. And I feel as if I could fall at my own feet in awe.

It hits at random moments, filling me with overwhelming joy, inspiration, takes my breath away. It’s something that can’t even be put into words. Truly indescribable. So beautiful. It’s an experience that took me months to fully process. The profoundness only began to truly sink in and register as the months went on because it’s an experience like no other, extremely rare & unnatural. It’s not everyday you get to meet someone who gives part of their body away to someone else to keep that person alive. It’s not everyday you get to BE someone who does that. Unless you’re me, that is 😆

I don’t even know their name, their age, or their gender. I have never seen their face. I never heard their story and maybe never will. But we are connected through life, forever. The only two humans on Earth to have shared that same organ. Intimate strangers. Two halves of the same whole. My perfect match. I love my recipient with my whole heart. Or with my whole kidney. It’s a strange experience to be able to love someone with this intensity never having laid eyes on them. A love that has nothing to do with liking, nothing to do with personality. A no strings attached kind of love. Unconditional. An unbreakable bond.

There is no greater act of love than giving a piece of ourselves away. And I am honored to have had the opportunity to experience a love like that.

A piece of me is missing, but I have never been more whole.

I like to think that my superpower is that I’m in two places at once and can pee for two. 😆

The experience of a lifetime.

Happy Six Months to us!!

Here’s to many, many more. 🫘🥂🎈💚

P.s. And, how lucky is my recipient, getting a piece of this? 😆

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I hope you’re having a beautiful day or night wherever in the world you are! I plan to upgrade soon so I can have more storage space and share more pictures. 😁

Xoxo Kim