The dilemma

Theo is thirty-one, and on the phone he keeps his voice light, the way he does when he is scared. The coordinator says a living kidney could last him twenty years, a stranger's far less, if one ever comes. Then she adds, almost carefully, that they screen donors as hard as they screen the sick, and asks when you can come in for your own week of tests.

Your options

1. Call Theo tonight and tell him yes before you sleep.
2. Do the full week of donor tests first, then decide with real numbers.
3. Ask the team to chase every other match and the waitlist before you commit.