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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:18 pm Post subject: And because sometimes we just need a good news story... |
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Washington Post: Two women chatted in a bathroom. They soon realized they were each a match for the other’s husband, who needed a kidney.
Quote: | Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis have been co-workers for a decade, and while they didn’t know each other well, they learned two years ago that their spouses each needed a kidney transplant.
Then in August, something remarkable happened.
The women saw each other in a restroom at work and started chatting as they washed their hands. They had a lot in common, both working in information technology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and dealing with the same medical stress at home.
Neither was a match to be an organ donor for her own husband, and the transplant waiting lists are impossibly long.
Wimbush casually asked Ellis what her husband’s blood type was.
He’s type O, Ellis replied.
Wimbush said her husband was type AB.
The women paused for a moment and looked at each other. Then Wimbush realized they might have stumbled upon something that might help save both of their husbands’ lives.
Wimbush thought she might be a match for Ellis’s husband, and — incredibly — she thought Ellis could be a match for her husband.
“I told Susan, ‘Wait a second — what are the odds that we’re both going through this with our husbands at the same time and we could also be in a position to help them,’” Wimbush recalled.
“That’s when we both knew: We had to get tested,” she said.
Antibody tests revealed that each woman was an excellent match for the other’s spouse.
So in March, seven months after that chance conversation, Wimbush donated one of her kidneys to Lance Ellis, 41, and Susan Ellis donated one of hers to Rodney Wimbush, 45. |
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Given the blood factors that have to match up, that's pretty damn amazing. |
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: And because sometimes we just need a good news story... |
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ChefLinda wrote: | Washington Post: Two women chatted in a bathroom. They soon realized they were each a match for the other’s husband, who needed a kidney.
Quote: | Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis have been co-workers for a decade, and while they didn’t know each other well, they learned two years ago that their spouses each needed a kidney transplant.
Then in August, something remarkable happened.
The women saw each other in a restroom at work and started chatting as they washed their hands. They had a lot in common, both working in information technology at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and dealing with the same medical stress at home.
Neither was a match to be an organ donor for her own husband, and the transplant waiting lists are impossibly long.
Wimbush casually asked Ellis what her husband’s blood type was.
He’s type O, Ellis replied.
Wimbush said her husband was type AB.
The women paused for a moment and looked at each other. Then Wimbush realized they might have stumbled upon something that might help save both of their husbands’ lives.
Wimbush thought she might be a match for Ellis’s husband, and — incredibly — she thought Ellis could be a match for her husband.
“I told Susan, ‘Wait a second — what are the odds that we’re both going through this with our husbands at the same time and we could also be in a position to help them,’” Wimbush recalled.
“That’s when we both knew: We had to get tested,” she said.
Antibody tests revealed that each woman was an excellent match for the other’s spouse.
So in March, seven months after that chance conversation, Wimbush donated one of her kidneys to Lance Ellis, 41, and Susan Ellis donated one of hers to Rodney Wimbush, 45. |
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