During one of my first shadowing shifts at the hospital as a first-year medical student, I met a patient with a unilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney. His right kidney was perfectly healthy. His left kidney had never functioned. I asked the patient about his relationship with his condition. He described it as being stuck in uncomfortable limbo—grateful for his healthy kidney but betrayed by the other. He said that sometimes he felt he was almost “too healthy” to be taken seriously but not healthy enough to feel truly well.