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Man donates kidney to stranger and hopes it encourages others

CBS America · 20 days ago
CBS America
CBS America
20 days ago

Nick Kolor makes a living teaching people how to breathe underwater in the Florida Keys, but at 25 he decided to take an even bigger plunge helping one person to live through a kidney donation.

Breakdown
  • Nick Kohler, 25, donated a kidney to a nine-year-old stranger named Aaron 5s
  • Aaron had waited three years for a life-saving kidney transplant 42s
  • Kohler and Aaron met after surgery and plan to reunite soon 56s
  • Dr. Linda Chen praised altruistic donors like Kohler 1m 3s
  • Kohler started the Spare Parts Project to promote organ donation 1m 18s