His son was in kidney failure, so this dad stepped up to save him

Over the past 10 years, Nolan Dobrucki has been through numerous treatments for severe aplastic anemia, which led to kidney failure and other complications. When it became clear Nolan, 15, needed a kidney transplant, dad Shannon Dobrucki, 45, was tested to see if he was a match. He was.

“We did the normal parent thing where we asked if he was playing football in gym or roughhousing,” Dobrucki explained. “It got worse to the point where we were like obviously this isn’t your everyday normal kid bumping around.” “That’s where the kidney damage came from. Did we know at the time? No, no we really had no idea,” Dobrucki said. “They had told us his kidney was damaged, but they couldn’t tell us if it was forever or temporary.”

After that bone marrow transplant, in 2015, Nolan immediately started dialysis to help his kidneys, spending 51 weeks at Riley Children’s Hospital Indianapolis. Dialysis stopped for about a year because it seemed that his kidneys had recovered, but then he needed it again. This time, it was peritoneal dialysis, which he could do it at home while he slept. Dialysis required Nolan to have a port, which made it tough for him to enjoy normal teen stuff.

“I was happy because then we knew there wouldn’t be a chance where we couldn’t find one,” Nolan said. “We could do it quick and get it over with.”In August 2020 Dobrucki donated his kidney to his son. As the teen recovered, he noticed that he felt better.

I would have donated if I could when my daughter was in kidney failure; it’s not a hard decision. It would be what any parent would do.

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