A Ride for a Lifetime
Reader's Digest India|December 2023
An Uber trip took a detour when the driver offered his ailing passenger one of his kidneys
Sarah Chassé
A Ride for a Lifetime

BILL SUMIEL WAS having a tough Friday. It was October 2020, and the 71-year-old, who was dealing with kidney failure and had been on dialysis for a few years, found himself at a vascular centre almost 50 kilometres from home for the second time in 24 hours. The day before, his brother had driven him to the Vascular Institute in Vineland, New Jersey, for a routine declotting of his dialysis access port, but it became clogged again that night.

Sumiel was no stranger to the struggles of kidney disease. He'd been diagnosed with diabetes more than 20 years before, which led to his kidney problems. He was on the transplant list, but no matches had yet appeared. So he continued with his treatments, and the periodic port declotting. Without a ride lined up for Friday's do-over, Sumiel took Ubers to and from his appointment.

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