Surgeons at Johns Hopkins performed the nation’s first-ever 6-way kidney transplant. Six donors, six recipients. Amazing.

Gotta love those Hopkins docs. Favorite line: “Johns Hopkins has performed 52 paired kidney exchanges, said the network. Hopkins pioneered the first triple swap in 2003 and the first five-way swap in 2006.”

The article said that “a national system to bring mismatched pairs together ‘could add about 2,000 additional transplants a year, which would be a huge boost.’ ”

I’ll say it would! All I can think of is those six kidneys in new homes, with new neighbors. Having left their healthy sibling behind — in charge of the old homestead for the first time — the transplanted ones are off to take on new responsibility, and are now filtering blood for those who couldn’t do it on their own. It’s so gratifying to feel needed. If I had eyes, they’d be moist …

— Kenny