Young lady has given a New Jersey man another chance at life, as she donated her kidney to him, after seeing his wife’s plea for a donor on Facebook, even though she had never met him.
Bill English, 35 told People he received the sad news that his kidneys were failing in 2015, and he needed a new one to stay alive.
His wife Laura, 35 with whom he has two children aged 4 and 2 with, set up a Facebook page, then called: “Be Our Daddy’s Hero” to ask the public for a donor.
Laura told People:
“I was hopeful that it would work. I had to do something. We didn’t have anything to lose. When he first got listed [on the organ transplant registry], he was living life on a machine. To ask somebody to give a piece of themselves to keep him alive was a big ask. I was hopeful, but I didn’t necessarily think a stranger was gonna donate.”
The donor, Amy Pauvlinch, 28 of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after seeing Laura’ Laura’s comment on a post about a man who walked around Disney World asking for a kidney donor and eventually found a match, soon found the “Be Our Daddy’s Hero” Facebook page and reached out.
Pauvlinch told People:
“I just knew that this is something that I had to do. Something in my heart was like, ‘This is the person you’re supposed to contact’. I ended up messaging her and I said, ‘I’d really like to give your husband my kidney.’ It was very, very awkward.”
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