A stranger.

一個陌生人。

Right.

好吧，我知道了

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[音樂播放]

I think the coolest part about donating a kidney to a stranger

我覺得給陌生人捐腎最酷的部分是什麼？

is I may have absolutely nothing in common with my recipient.

是我和我的收件人可能完全沒有共同點。

Organ transplants cross racial divides, social divides,

器官移植跨越了種族隔閡、社會隔閡。

political divides.

政治分歧；

It's such a visceral reminder of how we really are completely

這是一個如此直觀的提醒，我們真的是完全。

the same.

同樣的。

That is a gift.

這是一種天賦。

My name's Hendrik Gerrits.

我叫Hendrik Gerrits。

In a week and a half, I'm going to be giving my kidney

一個半星期後，我就要給我的腎臟做手術了

to a complete stranger.

對一個完全陌生的人。

I'm 37.

我37歲了

I'm a long distance runner, a recent rock climber,

我是個長跑愛好者，最近又是個攀巖愛好者。

and the father of two beautiful girls.

也是兩個漂亮女孩的父親。

My wife, Lumin, is a painter.

我的妻子魯敏是個畫家。

I've lived in two places in my life, Wyoming and New York.

我一生中住過兩個地方，懷俄明和紐約。

I just remember traveling home on the subway.

我只記得坐地鐵回家。

I, probably like a lot of Americans,

我，可能和很多美國人一樣。

was getting pretty overwhelmed with the news.

越來越多的新聞，非常不堪重負。

And I just felt like I was in this rut.

我只是覺得自己陷入了這種困境。

And I heard this amazing story from this woman

我從這個女人那裡聽到了一個驚人的故事

Christine Gentry on one of my favorite podcasts called Risk!

克莉絲汀-金特里在我最喜歡的播客之一 "風險！"上發表文章。

And she found out that by donating her kidney,

而她發現，通過捐獻腎臟。

she could set off a chain of donations.

她可以掀起一連串的捐款。

And I just remember it was one of those crying-on-the-subway

我只記得那是一個在地鐵上哭泣的人。

moments as you heard this story.

瞬間，當你聽到這個故事。

I was overwhelmed by the power of the story

我被故事的力量征服了

but also just immediately felt like, that's my thing.

但也只是立刻覺得，這是我的事。

I knew I could do it.

我知道我可以做到。

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[音樂播放]

We are eight days away from my operation,

離我的手術還有八天。

and I'm here to meet for the first time

而我在這裡是第一次見面

with Dr. Del Pizzo, who will be my surgeon.

Del Pizzo醫生將是我的外科醫生。

I'm really excited about that.

我真的很興奮。

I am trying to imagine that this is something like a race day

我試著想象，這是一個類似於比賽日的東西。

scenario.

場景。

I need to be able to visualize what

我需要能夠想象出

it's going to be like, what the recovery is going to be like.

它會是什麼樣的， 什麼恢復是怎麼回事。

But I feel like I'm going in to meet with my coach.

但我覺得自己要去見教練了。

Hi, how are you?

嗨，你好嗎？

Dr. Del Pizzo.

德爾皮佐博士。

Joe Del Pizzo, good to see you.

喬・德爾・皮佐，很高興見到你。

Nice to meet you.

很高興見到你。

Welcome.

歡迎你的到來

Thanks.

謝謝你

Have a seat.

請坐吧

Thanks

謝謝你

I have a couple of questions for you.

我有幾個問題要問你

OK.

好的

You're donating your kidney to--

你要把你的腎臟捐給...

--a stranger.

--一個陌生人

Right.

好吧，我知道了

So you're an altruistic donor.

所以你是一個無私的捐贈者。

So thank you for doing that.

所以，謝謝你這麼做。

Yeah.

是啊。

We are going to use your left kidney for the donation.

我們要用你的左腎來捐獻。

OK.

好的

Your left kidney.

你的左腎。

OK.

好的

Both of your kidneys work exactly the same.

你的兩個腎臟的工作原理完全一樣。

Your body's not going to miss one more than the other.

你的身體不會錯過一個比另一個更多。

OK.

好的

And the surgery is done through one little incision

而手術是通過一個小切口完成的。

in your belly button.

在你的肚臍上。

It's called laparoendoscopic single-site surgery.

這就是所謂的腹腔內鏡單點手術。

Your body won't recognize that you have one kidney versus two.

你的身體不會承認你有一個腎和兩個腎。

OK.

好的

And it won't adversely affect the rest of your life

而且不會對你的後半生造成不利影響。

in any way.

在任何方面。

If it did, we wouldn't let you or anyone else

如果有的話，我們就不會讓你或其他人知道了

donate their kidney.

捐出自己的腎臟。

Yeah.

是啊。

You're not only helping the person who's

你不僅是在幫那個人

getting your kidney on the 19th, but that person

在19日得到你的腎臟，但那個人。

is going to come off the list of people waiting

將從等待名單中脫穎而出。

for a kidney in the country, and everyone else on the list

腎，而其他人都在名單上。

is going to move up.

是要往上走的。

Yeah.

是啊。

So you are helping thousands of people.

所以你在幫助成千上萬的人。

So you're already part of a huge team.

所以你已經是一個龐大團隊的一員了。

Yeah.

是啊。

OK.

好的

All right?

好嗎？

Well, thanks so much.

嗯，非常感謝。

Good to meet you.

很高興見到你。

Looking forward to it.

期待著它。

Thanks again for everything, OK?

再次感謝你的一切，好嗎？

Yeah, OK.

是啊，好吧。

I'll see you soon.

我很快就會看到你。

OK, see you.

好的，再見

A non-directed kidney donor is someone like myself

非定向捐腎者就是像我這樣的人。

who just wants to help someone in need.

誰只是想幫助需要幫助的人。

The power of that gift is that I'm giving a kidney,

這個禮物的力量就是我給了一個腎。

but don't need a kidney in return.

但不需要腎臟作為回報。

And what that can do is unlock all of this potential

而這能做的就是釋放所有這些潛力。

in the paired donor exchange.

在配對的捐贈者交換中。

So there are all of these pairs floating out there,

所以有這些對子在外面飄著。

but the difficulty is matching them up.

但困難的是將它們匹配起來。

I found out that they found my match,

我發現他們發現了我的匹配。

and she's a 20-year-old woman who lives on the East Coast.

她是一個20歲的女人 誰住在東海岸。

And it's just very overwhelming.

而且它只是非常壓倒性的。

As an non-directed donor you very much

作為一個非直接捐贈者，您非常喜歡

have to be prepared to not meet your recipient.

要做好不滿足收件人的準備。

I can only imagine the difficulties

我可以想象其中的困難

that she must be going through now.

她現在一定要經歷的。

Not only that, but she has a hero in her own life

不僅如此，她還有一個自己生命中的英雄

who's donating a kidney on her behalf

誰來為她捐獻腎臟？

so that she can receive my kidney.

這樣她就可以接受我的腎臟。

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[音樂播放]

Dialysis is not an easy thing for sure.

透析肯定不是一件容易的事情。

You're very tired, lethargic all the time.

你很累，一直昏昏欲睡。

It does take a toll.

這確實會造成損失。

Just, you're so tired.

只是，你太累了。

So I hook up to this every night for nine, nine and half hours

所以我每天晚上都會用這個連接9個小時，9個半小時。

a night.

一個晚上。

My name is Kali, I'm 21 years old.

我叫Kali，今年21歲。

Depending on what time she has to leave in the morning

要看她早上什麼時候出發了

is what time she has to hook up at night.

是她晚上要勾搭的時間。

At six months old, my doctor diagnosed me

在我6個月大的時候，我的醫生診斷出我

with nephrotic syndrome.

患有腎病綜合症。

And at five years old, I ended up on dialysis.

而在五歲的時候，我最終還是要做透析。

And at six years old, I received a kidney transplant

六歲那年，我接受了腎臟移植手術。

from a deceased donor.

來自已故捐贈者。

In February 2017, they started to realize

2017年2月，他們開始實現

my kidney was rejecting.

我的腎臟在排斥。

By October, I was back on dialysis.

到了10月，我又開始透析了。

I had to put my dreams on hold and I

我不得不把我的夢想擱置起來，我。

had to stop going to school.

不得不停止上學。

They said that it was going to be a pretty hard match.

他們說，這將是一場相當艱難的比賽。

On a scale of 0 to 100 antibody scale, with 100

在0到100的抗體等級上，以100為組織、部門的是

being you're a really hard match, they said I was 99.

你是一個非常困難的比賽， 他們說我是99。

The doctors told me I should definitely share my story

醫生告訴我，我一定要把我的故事分享出來

to just get the word out.

要只是把話說出來。

And see if there are people that would want to be a donor.

看看有沒有人願意做捐贈者。

Tracy, my friend of five years, came forward.

崔西，我五年的朋友，走了出來。

I stepped forward to become a donor

我挺身而出，成為一名捐贈者

so that I could try to help Kali and give her the life

這樣我就可以試著幫助卡莉，給她生命。

that she deserves.

她應得的。

Even though I'm not a direct match for Kali,

雖然我不是卡利的直接對手。

I am a match for somebody out there.

我是一個匹配的人在那裡。

Hendrik is giving his kidney to Kali,

亨德利克把他的腎給了卡利。

and Tracy, who really wanted to give her

和特蕾西，誰真的想給她的。

a kidney but wasn't a match, gave it to someone else.

一個腎臟，但不是匹配的，給了別人。

And if that person who got a kidney also

如果那個得了腎的人也...

has someone who is willing to donate for them,

有誰願意為他們捐款。

there's another kidney that's still out there

還有另一個腎臟還在那裡。

that goes to another person.

歸於另一個人的。

And that's how a chain develops.

而這也是一個鏈條發展的過程。

So this kind of pay it forward mentality.

所以這種付出的心態。

It's a win-win situation, because by stepping forward

這是一個雙贏的局面，因為只要站出來

as a donor, I'm able to help Kali.

作為一個捐贈者，我可以幫助Kali。

And at that same time, I'm helping a complete stranger

同時，我也在幫助一個完全陌生的人。

who's also in dire need of a kidney.

誰也在急需一個腎臟。

Tomorrow I'll be receiving a kidney

明天我將接受一個腎臟

from a complete stranger.

從一個完全陌生的人。

I'm so grateful.

我很感激

I just can't wait.

我只是迫不及待。

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

It is November 19, it's about 7:00 AM.

今天是11月19日，大約是早上7點。

And I'm about to donate my left kidney.

而我即將捐出我的左腎。

This is Urethra Franklin The Second,

這是尿道富蘭克林第二。

who's named after Christine Gentry's kidney, who's

以Christine Gentry的腎臟命名的那個人

the woman who inspired my story.

啟發我的故事的女人。

I really hope that this kidney goes

我真的希望這個腎能去

on to a very fruitful life for a long time.

在很長一段時間內，都會有非常豐碩的人生。

So--

所以...

I think that 15 minute period right beforehand

我想之前的15分鐘

is kind of the scariest moment.

是一種最可怕的時刻。

Because the reality of the situation sets in.

因為現實的情況擺在那裡。

But then I felt a sense of calm.

但隨後我就感覺到了一種平靜的感覺。

And I felt like I'd prepared myself for some

我覺得自己已經做好了一些準備。

of those nerves and fear.

的那些神經和恐懼。

20 years ago, in order to donate your kidney,

20年前，為了捐腎。

you had to have a major operation.

你必須有一個大手術。

The whole point of developing the minimally invasive

開發微創手術的全部意義在於，在這個過程中。

technique, which we've taken a step further

的技術，我們又更進一步

at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell,

在紐約長老會韋爾康奈爾。

was to decrease the disincentives

是為了減少抑制因素

for healthy people to donate their kidney.

為健康人捐獻腎臟。

You guys ready to do a surgical time out?

你們準備好做手術暫停了嗎？

You make a 3 inch incision in the bellybutton area.

你在肚臍部位做一個3英寸的切口。

Starting--

開始...

And through that incision goes a small device

通過這個切口，有一個小裝置

where you can put instruments through.

在那裡你可以把儀器通過。

And one of those instruments is a camera

而其中一個儀器就是照相機

that then projects onto a large high-definition screen.

然後投射到一個大的高清螢幕上。

You basically remove the kidney from all its attachments

基本上，你要把腎臟從所有的附件中取出來

except for the blood supply and the ureter, which

除了血液供應和輸尿管外，它

is the small tube that carries urine from your kidney

是從腎臟輸送尿液的小管子。

down to your bladder.

到你的膀胱。

Unbeknownst to Hendrik, Kali was getting her transplant

亨德利克不知道，卡莉正在接受移植手術。

in the next room.

在隔壁房間。

And Tracy was in the hospital as well.

而崔西也在醫院裡。

There were basically three simultaneous surgeries

基本上有三個手術同時進行

going on.

正在進行。

Hendrik's kidney was removed, then

亨德利克的腎臟被切除了，然後。

that was taken across and given to Dr. Sultan.

被帶到對面，交給了蘇丹醫生。

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[音樂播放]

He starts the recipient surgery, and I'm back in Hendrik's room

他開始做受體手術，我回到Hendrik的房間。

finishing up the surgery.

完成了手術。

The third surgery that day was when Tracy's kidney

當天的第三臺手術是崔西的腎臟。

was harvested and was safely and successfully

收穫，並安全、成功地

removed to be flown to another hospital in the country

被移走，飛往國內另一家醫院。

to use in another recipient as part of the paired exchange.

以用於另一個接收者，作為配對交換的一部分。

When I woke up from anesthesia, groggily I

當我從麻醉中醒來的時候，昏昏沉沉的我。

remember my mom and my wife's face.

記得我媽媽和我妻子的臉。

And they said everything had gone well, but even better,

他們說一切都很順利，但甚至更好。

they said that my recipient was at the hospital.

他們說，我的收件人是在醫院。

And that she really wanted to meet me.

而且她真的很想見見我。

It was incredibly emotional.

這是令人難以置信的情感。

I was very excited.

我非常興奮。

It was a dream scenario, really.

這是一個夢境，真的。

Hi.

嗨，我的天

[PIANO MUSIC]

[鋼琴音樂]

How are you?

你好嗎？

Really good.

真的很好。

[LAUGHTER]

[笑聲]

I have a letter for you.

我有一封信給你

Yeah?

是嗎？

Yeah.

是啊。

Did you get my letter?

你收到我的信了嗎？

Yes.

是的，我知道

Yeah.

是啊。

Yeah, read it after I was conscious that day, so.

是啊，那天我意識清醒後看的，所以。

Yeah.

是啊。

Yeah.

是啊。

You feeling good?

你感覺好嗎？

Feeling better?

感覺好點了嗎？

Really good.

真的很好。

Great.

厲害

Really good.

真的很好。

I took good care of it, it's a good kidney.

我把它照顧得很好，它是個好腎。

They said it took so quick.

他們說這麼快就搞定了。

Never seen--

從未見過...

Good.

很好啊

--a kidney work so quick.

--腎臟的工作如此之快。

Good.

很好啊

Yeah.

是啊。

That's great.

那太好了

So.

所以，

I'm so happy for you.

我真為你高興。

Sounds like you got so much in front of you.

聽起來你有很多事情要做啊

Yeah.

是啊。

And my--

還有我的...

Got a whole new life.

得到了全新的生活。

Yeah.

是啊。

Because I was on the deceased donor

因為我是死者的捐贈者

list at my local hospital, and they said

在我當地醫院的名單上，他們說

it was going to be at least six to seven years.

這將是至少6到7年。

Whoa.

哇。

So--

所以...

That's too long.

太長了

Yeah.

是啊。

Yeah.

是啊。

Thank you.

謝謝你了

Thank you.

謝謝你了

Thank you so much.

非常感謝你。

I mean, we don't even know how--

我的意思是，我們甚至不知道如何 --

Yeah.

是啊。

--to thank you.

--謝謝你

Yeah.