Steve Brown is a familiar face and voice within the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. He began his career with the Utah Jazz in 1991 and was most recently the voice of the Salt Lake City Stars G League team and a commentator for the Tour of Utah television broadcasts.
For someone who has spent the past 48 years in front of a microphone, he wasn’t the one to make the news of his need for a kidney public. His kids did. Two weeks ago, sons Cornell, Trevor, Stuart and Spencer posted the alert on their family Facebook page that their father could use some help. For a variety of medical reasons, no one in their immediate or extended family has been able to qualify as an acceptable donor. So they took to social media to get the word out that an outside donor is keenly needed and would be gratefully appreciated.
Steve does have a sister, Debbie, who is ready and waiting to donate her kidney. The trouble is, Debbie’s blood type is AB and Steve’s is O, so she isn’t a match. As an alternative, she has put her name on a “paired” list, meaning if there’s a would-be donor out there who is also a nonmatch for their loved one, they could do a switch, an AB for an O. But Debbie’s name has been on the paired registry for a year and a half and still no takers.
Also, Steve’s doctors have placed his name on the national United Network for Organ Sharing waitlist — putting him in line for a kidney from someone who has donated their organs when they die. It is a long line, numbering close to 100,000 hopefuls. It can take four years or more to reach the top of the first-come, first-serve list — years he may not have.
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