KidneyTalk Podcast

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Week of April 1, 2008

An Interfaith Kidney Transplant

Rabbi Andrew Bossov needed a kidney. Reverend Karen Onesti said, “I’ll give you one of mine.” Catching up at their Interfaith Clergy meeting, and unaware of his condition, Rev. Onesti asked Rabbi Bossov why people were asking him how he was feeling. The rest of this heartwarming tale is the subject of a show filled with hope, faith and the goodness of human beings toward each other—and particularly timely at the beginning of April, National Donate Life Month.
 

With your Hosts...
Stephen Furst got his big break into movies in "Animal House," in which he played Flounder. Stephen has also starred as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in "St. Elsewhere" and as Vir Cotto in "Babylon5." He is a successful television and movie producer/director and a kidney patient.

Lori Hartwell is the author of Chronically Happy - Joyful Living in Spite of Chronic Illness, and President/Founder of Renal Support Network. A kidney patient since the age of two, she has consistently strived to instill hope into the lives of people who live with chronic kidney disease.