捐肾给陌生人？

After their father died while in need of a kidney transplant, two Illinois sisters each donated their kidneys 24 hours apart to total strangers to make sure two other families didn't have to suffer the way theirs did.

在父亲死于肾移植手术后，伊利诺斯州的两姐妹以24小时电话间隔将各自肾脏捐献给了完全陌生的人，以确保另外两个家庭不会遭受他们那样的痛苦。

"I hope he would be really proud," Bethany Goralski, 25, of Chicago, told us.

来自芝加哥的25岁的贝瑟尼·戈拉尔斯基在接受采访时说:“我希望他会感到非常自豪。”

After a long battle with Crohn's disease and kidney failure, their father, Mark Goralski, passed away in September of 2018.

经过与克罗恩病和肾衰竭的长期斗争之后，他们的父亲马克·戈拉尔斯基于2018年9月去世。

Bethany Goralski said she was prepared to donate her kidney to her father -- who had already underwent a transplant in 2011 -- but doctors "told us at the time he wasn't healthy enough for a transplant."

戈拉尔斯基说，她准备把自己的肾捐给父亲，但医生“当时告诉我们，他的健康状况不适合进行肾移植”——戈拉尔斯基的父亲在2011年已经接受过一次移植手术。

"We just want to make sure two less families had to go through what we went through," Bethany Goralski said.

贝特尼.戈拉尔斯基说:“我们只是想确保能少两个家庭再去经历我们所经历的一切。”

Her sister, Hannah Goralski, 24, said that she also decided to give the gift of life to a stranger after her father's death.

她24岁的妹妹汉娜·戈拉尔斯基说，她还决定在父亲去世后把生命的礼物送给一个陌生人。

"You are just in a lull and a loss and you’re thinking about what am I going to do to stop thinking about this person," Hannah Goralski told us.

汉娜·戈拉尔斯基告诉我们:“你会处于一种平静和失落的状态，你在想我该怎么做才能不再去想这个人。”

"My dad was always giving, he was always helping others," she added.

我爸爸总是在给予，他总是在帮助别人，”她补充说。

"And I thought what a great way to honor him."

“于是我想这是一个很好的向他致敬的方式。”

"Knowing a lot of people who have been affected by organ transplant, it felt selfish to keep my kidney," she said.

她说:“我知道很多人都受过器官移植的影响，所以我觉得保留自己的肾脏很自私。”

Hannah Goralski said that she called Northwestern Memorial Hospital about a month after her father passed away, and the sisters underwent the surgeries about a day apart in March 2019.

汉娜·戈拉尔斯基说，父亲去世一个月后，她就给西北纪念医院打了电话。

Knowing that she potentially saved a life, "definitely feels amazing," Hannah Goralski said.

汉娜·戈拉尔斯基说，她知道自己可能救了一条命，“感觉棒极了”。

"I am definitely in my prayers every night and thinking about the people that received my kidney," she said.

她说:“我每天晚上都在祈祷，想着那些接受了我的肾脏的人们。”

"And thinking about the possible chain that this started."

“想想这可能会给他们的生活带来的好的连锁反应。”

Hannah Goralski added that she believes if her father "was in this position, I think he would have done the exact same thing, he was always helping others."

汉娜·戈拉尔斯基补充说，她相信如果她的父亲“处在这个位置，我想他也会做同样的事情，他总是在帮助别人。”

"I know he would be proud," she said.

“我知道他肯定会感到骄傲的，”她说。

Bethany Goralski said she would encourage healthy young people to become organ donors.

贝特尼.戈拉尔斯基说，她将鼓励健康的年轻人成为器官捐赠者。

"I would tell them to do it, I don’t regret it one bit," she said.

“我会告诉他们去做，我一点也不后悔，”她说。

"We’re young and healthy, so my recovery was only about 10 days."

“我们年轻又健康，所以我的康复只需要10天左右。”

Hannah Goralski added that "the age I did it was very ideal."

汉娜·戈拉尔斯基补充说:“我去做这件事的年龄也非常理想。”

"I’ve never had any major health issues," she said.

“我从来没有什么大的健康问题，” 她说。

"I’ve only ever had my wisdom teeth removed so this was my first surgery ... I felt like I bounced back very quickly."

“我只拔过智齿，所以这是我第一次做手术……我感觉自己很快就恢复了过来。”

She acknowledged that while there are "definitely risks for women like preeclampsia ... all women are at risk for that anyway."

她承认，虽然“存在像子痫前期这样的风险……不过，所有女性都有这种风险。”

"I thought why wait, if someone's dying now and I can help them now, hopefully by then when I'm older I'll look back and say, 'I'm glad I didn’t wait," Hannah Goralski said.

汉娜·戈拉尔斯基说:“我想，如果有人现在就要死了，而我现在又能帮助他们，那为什么还要等呢?希望等我长大了，当我回首往事时，我会说，'我很高兴我没有等待。’”

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