My respects and admiration. I like to to think I’d do this for family or dear friends. Spent a lot of years looking at the immunological aspects of transplants and stem cells for regenerative medicine before it was ‘a thing’.
To paraphrase Kipling - ‘you are a better man than I.’
Thank you for your kind thoughts. I’d never had the opportunity of doing something that I felt so good about before. And again, my personal experience, since the procedure was laparoscopic, was truly not too burdensome: I took exactly one painkiller, oxycontin I think, in my entire recovery and was fully mobile in a month. The only “downside” was I drink three liters of water every day and limit my intake of alcohol and of animal protein, which is no big deal with some of the vegan stuff available nowadays. (That doesn’t mean I don’t treat myself to a scotch and steak every so often!)
My mother started me off with plasma donation even before I technically was allowed to do it (for the Managua earthquake victims,) so I think that she deserves credit for opening my mind decades ago to the possibility of doing it.