Who You Effect

About a month after my transplant my donor's husband's employer did a story on us and the transplant on their website. For some reason I printed out a handful of copies and left them at the transplant center's waiting area.

A couple of weeks go by and someone saw a copy, read it and contacted my donor's husband (since his email was listed in the story). This person was at the transplant clinic to find out if they were able to donate a kidney to a distant family member that they didnt know too well. This person had reservations about going through with it since they didnt know each other too well but after reading of the selflessness of my donor in giving to someone she didnt know, this person decided to go through with it.

Several days ago, my donor's husband was cleaning out his email inbox and found the original email that he and his wife had responded to. He wondered whatever happened to this person and sent them an email. He heard back from this person's spouse over the weekend. Last Friday, this person gave their distant relative a kidney. Both donor and recipient were doing fine.