Nurse Donates Kidney, Climbs Kilimanjaro

0:00It's March 25th. This is Anchorage News Today, powered by AI. Holly Fisk, a nurse practitioner from Anchorage, Alaska, donated one of her kidneys two years ago to save her neighbor's young daughter, Bella. She was a 1 in 100,000 match thanks to her own negative blood type and the surgery went perfectly. To celebrate the two-year mark, Fisk joined a group of fellow kidney donors to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at nearly 20,000 feet. On the flight home from Paris, she chatted with the passenger next to her, Dr. Mikel Prieto, from Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. It turned out he had performed the kidney donation surgery for one of her climbing buddies. People close to the story praise Fisk's selflessness, calling it a true act of loving thy neighbor. Bella is thriving thanks to the gift, and Fisk says the donation actually built her strength and resilience. This happens amid National Kidney Month, with over 100,000 Americans waiting years for a kidney transplant.

1:00Experts like Dr. Prieto urge more living donors to step forward, proving one healthy person can change everything.