Friends, know that you don’t have to be a match to save the life of your friend or loved one. Through the National Kidney Registry, you can be a match for someone who desperately needs a kidney and then your friend/family member will be matched with someone else. A beautiful system, if you would like to know more about this please ask your caregivers. As I write this, my son who was not a match for me, saved the life of a young father in the Bay Area and now I await my own living donor match. So, in a sense my son saved two lives.