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PROVIDENCE – For Andrew Reinhardt, the decision to donate a kidney to their uncle was easy.
"It's pretty simple math for me," Reinhardt says.
"I've got two good kidneys and one good uncle."
Reinhardt and their uncle Dave Henault are scheduled for surgery Sept.
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19 at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Henault cast a wide net for transplant candidates and was participating in a program last fall that helped expand his potential pool of donor matches throughout the country, but the answer to his problem was nearby all along.
Reinhardt, 38, of New London, Connecticut, has been interested in helping for years, but Henault seemed elusive when Reinhardt asked about his illness.
"I said, 'What if you give me a kidney, and you end up needing it?' " Henault recalls, noting that he didn't discover his kidney illness until he was in his 40s.
Henault also thought that his sister Giselle, Reinhardt's mother, would be able to donate one of her kidneys.
She tried, but the potential donors go th