Thanks to a life-saving act of kindness through organ transplant, two dads who were once strangers are now great friends. Chris Perez, 40, and Steve Sanders, 46, have developed an unbreakable bond after the former donated his kidney to Steve, who has a rare genetic condition known as uromodulin kidney disease (UKD). Steve learned his …
Kidney donor
Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis had been working together in the IT department at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for a decade. When they passed by each other at work, the two women would smile and say a little hello to each other. Neither of them knew that one day, they’d work together to save their …
Tony Antonelli of Gaithersburg, Maryland, got a second chance at life when his wife, Mary Antonelli, gave him one of her kidneys four years ago. However, that kidney eventually began to scar and fail, and doctors didn’t know why. Tony’s only hope now was to find another kidney donor. Fortunately for the 75-year-old, he didn’t …
This story about a father and his adopted daughter demonstrates that fate has its own way of bringing wonderful surprises into our lives. North Carolina resident Billy Houze, 64, is a father of five and an esteemed pastor at First Baptist Church of Lawndale. Everything in his life was going smoothly until 2016, when his …