KROQ’s Bean Reveals His Decision to Donate Kidney to Co-Worker

Richard Horgan — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:00:50 +0000

A number of KROQ-FM staffers have known about this for a few months, ever since Gene “Bean” Baxter (pictured) first made the announcement at an internal meeting. But it was on this morning’s Kevin & Bean show that he shared with the rest of the world his stunning personal news. On November 13, Bean will be at Cedars-Sinai donating one of his kidneys to the station’s director of engineering Scott Mason. This is actually Mason’s second such transplant.

Be sure to click, bookmark and listen to the audio link at some point. It’s our coast’s latest equivalent to the many selfless acts being performed on the east coast in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. From Baxter’s KROQ show blog post:

Scott has had medical issues for much of his adult life, including his kidneys failing, and that led him to have a transplant from a cadaver back in 1999. Well, now that one has failed too and Scott is back on dialysis for many hours a week. The kidney processes waste out of the blood and without one your body is being poisoned all the time. The dialysis helps but is a temporary solution. You only get off the machine if you get a new kidney or you die.

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KROQ’s Bean Reveals His Decision to Donate Kidney to Co-Worker