The Kidney Recipient's Promise

In 2019, a thirty-two-year-old man named Derek Mitchell from Memphis received a kidney from a twenty-four-year-old woman who had died in a car accident. Before the transplant, Derek had spent years ignoring his health — fast food at every meal, heavy drinking on weekends, skipping every follow-up appointment his doctors scheduled. His body was his to wreck, or so he figured.…