Marcus Balters is a surgeon, who recently needed a kidney transplant after years of heart and kidney issues. His brother, Matt, stepped up to the plate to donate one of his kidneys.
With dry humor, Matt recalls the conversation last fall this way. His brother said, “Remember when you told me you’d donate a kidney if I needed it?”
“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I never said anything like that. That conversation must have slipped my mind.’”
But there was no decision to mull over. Marcus needed a kidney, and Matt would provide it.
And so he did, in July. Matt continues his own struggle against chronic depression. Which is so hard because the treatment is to try one thing and then another until something works. So far, nothing has worked.
So … Matt, way to do a really great thing for your brother. And hang in there with the depression. New treatments come out all the time; you are not the depression, and the depression is not you. There is hope.