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Dear Sean
Some of you humans can be slugs, but humans can also be very considerate people! One of the amazing
things about you humans is that even though you have two kidneys working all the time, in a pinch,
one kidney, if working properly, can do the trick. It's certainly better to have two working in
their body so that if one doesn't work right, they still have the other. But these brothers will
both, hopefully, do just fine!
This man did a wonderful thing for his brother. He had an operation in which one of his
kidneys, those fist-sized organs towards the back and just above the waist, was removed. Doctors
then operated on the brother, took out one of the kidneys that wasn't working properly, and very
carefully replaced it with the new kidney which they carefully attached to all the appropriate
tubes and vessels. Hopefully, the new kidney started to work doing all the important work of
kidneys. That work includes cleaning the blood to get rid of the chemical waste products that the
body is always making and making sure that the chemical balance in the body is correct. Thank
goodness for kidneys! Without them, your body would poison itself with the chemicals it makes!
Signed,
Wendell
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