Vacuum cleaner salesman donates kidney to would-be customer

[okarol]

Vacuum cleaner salesman donates kidney to would-be customer

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Story Created: Oct 8, 2007 at 2:15 PM MDT

By The Associated Press

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) _ A chance meeting between an Idaho Falls vacuum cleaner salesman and a would-be customer in Twin Falls has led to an altogether different transaction: The donation of a kidney.

Three years ago, 35-year-old Paul w kidneys failed. That meant costly dialysis _ and a wait on the University of Colorado's 500-person-strong transplant list.

Enter Jamie Howard. Last spring, he came to Sucher's door trying to convince him to buy a Kirby vacuum.

Sucher's family told him they couldn't afford one _ because of the medical problems.

Howard and Sucher shared blood types, and that got Howard thinking: He would donate his own kidney.

After the August operation, Sucher says he feels great _ almost as if he'd never lost his kidneys in the first place.

He calls it ''truly a miracle.''

(Twin Falls Times-News)
 

 
 
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[Wattle]

But did he buy the vacuum?   

[KT0930]

Wow, my ex and I had one of those guys come to the door, and even after we told him we couldn't afford it (for the same reason) he kept pushing. His supervisor - the salesman was still in training - had to tell him, after we told him about five times, to forget it, we weren't buying. He never did offer a kidney!!

[goofynina]

I'm with Wattle, did HE buy the vacuum?? lol,  What an amazing story, It warms my heart to know to hear stories like this, thank you for posting it Okarol, i love sharing stories like this with my family too 

[George Jung]

I got an e-mail from a friend today about this story.  She found it posted in our local news station web site in North Carolina.  I was impressed how well the story has traveled.  My only quarrel is that it was posted under "Strange News" category.

 
   
Salesman Donates Kidney to Ailing Man

Posted: Today at 10:27 a.m.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — When Jamie Howard knocked on Paul Sucher's door six months ago, he was trying to sell him a new vacuum cleaner. He ended up giving him one of his kidneys.

The chance encounter with Howard, a traveling salesman for the Kirby Co., led to transplant surgery in August. Now, the color is returning to Sucher's cheeks and he is recovering.

Sucher, 35, suffered kidney failure three years ago because of high blood pressure, forcing him to undergo dialysis.

When Howard came by on a sales call, he learned that Sucher couldn't afford a new vacuum cleaner because of the illness. He also learned Sucher had O-positive blood - the same as his.

"I went outside, prayed about it, called my dad and my wife," Howard remembers. "(Donation) was something I was called to do."

Howard, who is also 35, passed the tests required for potential donors. The operation was done at the University of Colorado hospital in Denver, where Sucher had been on the transplant waiting list.

Two months later, Sucher says he feels so good it's almost as if he never was ill: "It's truly a miracle."

[angela515]

It's a brilliant and awesome inspiring story, but strange since it don't happen as a normal everyday thing, so to most ppl it is strange,  , so it's a good strange.