Woman with kidney disease desperately needs a donor, then something amazing happens

Woman with kidney disease desperately needs a donor, then something amazing happensThere is nothing worse than a member of your family or a close friend becoming unwell or being diagnosed with a life-long illness such as kidney diseaseCommentsNewsAbigail Nicholson Content Editor06:04, 06 Apr 2026View ImageA woman with kidney disease had a doner hiding in plain sight(Image: GRAHAM YOUNG)A woman with kidney disease who desperately needed a doner for a transplant was amazed when doctors found a doner hiding in plain sight.‌There is nothing worse than a member of your family or a close friend becoming unwell or being diagnosed with a life-long illness. Although it is gruelling for the person having treatment, it can be awful for their loved ones as they feel helpless.‌That was the same for one husband, who stood by his wife when she went into acute renal failure and was forced onto dialysis.‌There is no cure for kidney disease, with the only option of recovery often being a transplant. He wrote about what happened on a Reddit thread which asked married users ' what did the “for worse” look like in your marriage?'.The husband said: " My wife of thirty years suddenly came down with acute renal failure and was forced onto dialysis."Dialysis keeps you alive, and slowly kills you. There's no cure to kidney disease, but there is a treatment: get yourself a transplant. And get it from a living donor, because cadaver donors have already spent some time being dead and that's not good for kidneys.‌"Well, guess who was a perfect match. Hello, it's me! And thank the Lord for that, because I would do anything for that woman, and I consider myself lucky that I could do this for her after all she's done for me."After surgery, the husband said their life took "a turn for the worse" as she didn't fully recover and her anti-rejection medication was causing her to be "wobbly and in pain".‌He continued: "But sh...