A silly web series with a serious aim: to find Gene a kidney donor
Gene Okun, who has polycystic kidney disease, has launched the website "Gene's Big Dumb Kidneys," all in the hopes of finding a donor.
In the videos, two burly guys in red bodysuits are uncomfortably close to Gene Okun. They eat food off his plate, snuggle up with him in bed, and accompany Okun on a date, even hugging his companion as the date ends. And the whole time, the guys in red are loudly laughing and arguing.
In actual life, those actual kidneys — which Okun has nicknamed Big and Dumb — do cause him a lot of trouble. Okun, 53, has polycystic kidney disease, or PKD, which has caused his midsection to grow large and rounded, as if he were pregnant.
He found out he had the condition in his 30s, and went on the transplant list. But he wasn’t content to just sit back and wait.
“If I put myself on the list [for a kidney transplant] and just wait,
