Following father’s example, UK nursing student Karly Schmidt donates a kidney to save a life

By Elizabeth Adams
Special to KyForward
To commit a textbook term to memory, UK College of Nursing student Karly Schmidt used a mental shortcut by naming her two kidneys George and Fred.
George, her right kidney, reminded her of the word “glomerular,” and Fred, her left kidney, reminded her of “filtration.” Putting the two words together, she could recall the glomerular filtration rate, which...