She Lost 135lb to Save Two Lives

jenbusick · September 2011

I thought this was a great story -- a sister lost 135 pounds so that she could donate a kidney to her brother.

“In an interesting way, this has worked out so that two lives will have been saved,” Snyderman said. “A kidney life and a life that might have been shortened from obesity. So it’s really an extraordinary sort of double header.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44716368/ns/today-today_health/t/she-lost-pounds-save-her-brothers-life

I know we don't all have motivations like that (goodness, I would actually hope not!) but I thought the story was really sweet.