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Friend gives kidney to best friend
The Daily Record
Jun 29, 2007
Miracles Do Happen! Our friend just received a kidney transplant last week and is doing quite well, which is a miracle in itself. However, the true miracle in this is that when she went on the list, she was told that in this point in her disease, she would need a perfect 6 out of 6 match to make it work – which is extremely rare!
In the meantime, her best friend from Florida decided he would be a living donor and give her one of his kidneys as long as it was possible. He went thru all the tests and last Tuesday while he was in NJ, he finished the last of his tests to determine if this would be possible, if at all. Well, the very next day and shortly after they told her she could wait a very long time for a kidney requirements she needed, she received the call of a PERFECT 6/6 match!!! The doctors after the surgery said, that a better kidney could never have been found unless it was from an identical twin, how amazing that is!!!!!
The only sad part of this whole story is that her son took off a total of 6 hours from his job to be with at his mother’s side with the rest of his family during this critical time and was FIRED because of choosing his family first!!!!! In addition to choosing family first, he also chose not to clean the boss’ hobby cars on Father’s Day, the same day his mother was finally coming home from the hospital, and instead chose to help prepare and sanitize the house for her arrival. That prompted this “boss/friend” to actually come to his parent’s house and fire him.
Why, you ask? Only because he chose to make his own life decisions finally, cut the puppet strings that he was on, and just say “no” to the “boss” and put himself and his family first – nothing else! Not, “he forgot who the boss was” or any other story like that – simply b/c he stood up for himself and chose family over work and hobby, against someone who just didn’t understand the value of family – and admitted that!
With all that being said, that family actually received many miracles out of this situation – The kidney recipient/Mom is going to live a long healthy life with her new kidney, the miracle of friendship in which one person would do such an extremely selfless act to help another human being, the miracle that people become organ donors and agree to give a part of themselves and although a life has ended tragically, another life is extended so they may watch their kids get married and have grandchildren, and the final miracle is the son will finally have his life back in his control – no more crazy hours pushing himself to the limits, his weekends are free to spend with family and friends once more, he can take sick and vacation time and not feel bad about taking care of himself, and he makes his own decisions according to what he wants and not what the “friend/boss” wants him to do.
So, in the end, we Thank God for these many wonderful life changing miracles our friends have received! Some miracles are there out in the open to see and others are miracles in disguise. Selfless acts, true love, friendship, and the gift of life are so precious; that is what makes them miracles. This family has been truly blessed for these reasons and many more!
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070628/NEWS09/70628012/1288/NEWS09