This is great news. My friends Noel & Brandi Franks are doing the same thing. Their surgery is set for Feb 20th. What a blessing!!! You can be a living donor...

My mom gave her brother one of her kidneys years ago... I remember after the surgery my uncle was almost jumping out of the gurney. He hadn't felt that good in years. And that was right after coming out of major surgery! Amazing thing modern science is. Good luck to them both.

Oh my goodness, this story made me cry! May they both be blessed with many, many years of happiness and health! What a wonderful couple.

Thank God it was almost Valentines Day or she would have let her husband die obviously.

who gets the kidney in the divorce....

March 6, 2013 will be the 1-year anniversary of my kidney transplant performed at Johns Hopkins. I was told that I would never receive another transplant, but my wonderful, loving, and selfless cousin came forward and because of her I have my life back. It is a gift that can be given, any day or time of year, not just Valentine's day, that cannot be reciprocated. I am forever grateful and indebted to her for her gift of life. Everyone should consider organ donation. People are dying while they wait for a match and you could be the one to safe a life! Do something for yourself on Valentine's Day....give the gift of life!

I absolutely cannot believe what I am reading here today. Finally a wonderful feel-good story of a couple, one of which makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her husband instead of her giving him chocolate etc. for a made up holiday in which you are supposed to acknowledge your mate on that day only instead of all year long. And lo and behold racism is brought into it again. Here in Canada we have people of every race and denomination but we do not have many black people so I often dont comment feeling that maybe I dont know what it has been like there for the blacks and whites. My daughter married a man from Africa over two years ago and our family never blinked an eye at accepting him into our family and loving him as we do each other. After all, dont we all bleed the same color. He is wonderful, kind, got a job just 4 months after arriving here from Africa - nothing is free for him and they are working hard to build a future together. I dont know how some people there live with such hatred in their heart without even knowing the person or persons they speak about. Is it so hard for you to just be happy for somone regardless of colour or creed. From what I am reading it looks like it is.

People who are racist are misinformed and do not have the capacity to comprehend that racism is about hating for all the wrong reasons. One of them is - you cannot hate an entire race because of what a small percentage of that race did yesterday or a hundred years ago!! C'mon man, that's common sense. For instance (just saying) you should NOT want or seek to punish, hold back from, etc., an innocent person (or group of people) who had nothing to do with a murder or riot that happened 2 days ago or 97 years ago!! Right? So, the person or persons responsible for the act 2 days or 97 years ago were white... or black, then all of that race should be held accountable? HELL NO! My co-worker and friend is black, and I just find out there was a white man killed by a black man, so I should say to him - "Man, "your people" are responsible for killing "one of ours", so..." HUH? Like that? How stupid does that sound?

These racist responses (i think) are just looking to get more negative responses. It's a feeding frenzy, just like racism is, and racism does. It just takes a few and away they go! People who aren't even racists become racists due to peer pressures... not all the time but in reality it happens on the streets. Like racial profiling... everyone does it (yes... think about it. Who are the primary terrorists targeted?, and so on. Innocent people get targeted for things that someone else their own color or religion did yesterday or a hundred years ago. That's ridiculous!!! Racial overtones are even preached against in the Bible - for those who respectfully choose to believe in "the word", like I try to do).

...where I'm going with all this is I think a main thing about racism is mis-information, from people who are not willing to know the truth. Yeah, hate is there too, but I think that's also from mis-information. ...Until it hits them in the face, and they get a dose of kindness from an innocent, unbeknownst person who they assumed they were supposed to hate. Then hopefully, it will change their views on racism.

kcterrilynn,

I too am a living donor. And it was a for a friend. (only 2.5 months ago, and we re both doing well). I love these stories too!

Someone asked about non-relative donors - and yes, the factors matter, and it the new drugs available certainly help. To the girl who said she wouldn't donate to her husband in fear of her health - they do thorough testing on the donors. They don't want to make someone sick just to make someone else better.

WOW,thats a FIRST! SHE's inside of HIM! Honeeeey, Canya FEEL ME!

Great story. I would do so for my husband. However, I can understand the skeptics. I read a story last year of a couple divorcing. She had given him a kidney. Since they were divorcing she was suing him for the kidney back or the cost of the kidney. Bitter.

I am a white women married to a white man and i am on the list for the bone marrow transplant, I would NEVER question WHO my bone marrow was given to if it was needed. I think it SUCKS all these comments about white/black, whatever the color a life is a life.

it is a very dangerous thing to donate a kidney not always does the person get it live nor does the person giving it always live. I give her thumbs up for doing this and she is very couragouse for doing so. and he is a very lucky man to have such a beautiful wife as a person!

If this isn't a case of real unconditional love I don't know what else to call it. Very uplifting story as well. James you are one lucky, fortunate, and blessed man. To have a wonderful, giving, and beautiful person to share your life with. I so respect your wife for the sacrifice she made for you but it was for her. She wanted to keep you around so that she could continue her life with you. Nice story about human kindness. May God continue to bless you both.

Great story. Its a shame they couldn't get a better match from one of his family members. I hope it works.

I received my gift of life as a christmas present from my husband 2 years ago. What a selfless gift making me well again and improving the quality of life for us both. Some folks aren't cut out to do that.. but when you love someone and see them suffering offering seems to be the right thing to do. All along the way he was provided options to back out.. but stood strong. Can I repay him? Heck no - I do my best to show I love him and that I am forever grateful for this special gift and new lease on life.

Hope he shows his appreciation better then George Lopez1

hard to say anything.. we have each other,and it really is the most valuable thing we all have... it really is our real wealth.. she just proved it again.

he is a very lucky person

If this act is not love, than can love even be possible? Ms. DeGeso-Jones should be saluted from the rooftops. A real humanitarian as far as I am concerned.

She just appreciates the "LongJohnSilver" and does not want it to end. Sensible woman.

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