Here is a photo of Patti McNair, left, and Sue Platt of Jackson Township. Platt in August donated a kidney to McNair, who is her best friend of 38 years.

JACKSON TWP — The only thing that bothers Cranberry Township native and kidney donor Sue Platt, who in August gave a kidney to her best friend, is when people heap praise on her for being generous.

“Honestly, I was being a bit selfish because I want to have my friend forever,” Platt said. “I didn't want her to die.”

Platt's odyssey into the world of organ donation began in August 2016 when a coworker at West Penn Hospital told her their mutual friend, Patti McNair, had been placed on the transplant list due to stage IV kidney disease.

Platt knew McNair had been diagnosed with kidney function disease in December 2015, and she pledged one of her kidneys should McNair ever need a transplant.

On a fall 2016 trip to Ohio to visit the third nurse in their trio of best friends, Platt forced McNair to come clean.

Once it was discovered that both women have an O+ blood type, Platt called the transplant team at Allegheny General Hospital.

Finally, August 11, 2017 arrived, which the two friends called “K Day.”

Read more about this story in the Butler Eagle.