When a teacher was turned down as a donor, his school's janitor volunteered, and the janitor's kidney, given to a stranger in a swap, saved the teacher's brother.
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Kept 'swap' or 'stranger'? How it worked, and the best wrong words here: the kidney went to a stranger, and that is what got the brother his. Kept 'janitor'? 'Janitor's' says who he is and whose kidney it was. Kept 'volunteered' or 'donor'? How it started. This one really happened. Andrew Allen, 53, cleans Boston Arts Academy at night and had got friendly with Tom Thermidor, the geometry teacher. Tom's youngest brother, also called Thomas, was 21, a student at Babson College and in stage 5 kidney failure, and Tom and their other brother had both been turned down as donors. Allen went home that night and applied online to Mass General's living donor programme. His blood did not match Thomas, so his kidney went to another patient in a swap, and that moved Thomas up the list for a kidney from an anonymous donor. Both men are well. Thomas, now 24, has graduated and works for the hospital. 'I'm just a regular schmuck,' Allen said. 'Anybody can do this.' Boston Globe, 16 October.