Christine Royles, 23, of South Portland, Maine needed a kidney. She took a spot on the national waiting list for a donor kidney, which is over 100,000 patients long. The odds were bad, so in an act of desperation, she wrote a message on the back of her car asking for a kidney.
Ashley Dall-Leighton saw it and responded immediately. The Portland Press Herald quotes her:
“I looked over,” says Ashley Dall-Leighton, “and I go, ‘Oh, my God, that’s the saddest thing I’ve ever read.’ And he’s like, ‘What?’ And I read it out loud, and he said, ‘Did you get the number? Text her right now.'”
Her husband, Josh Dall-Leighton, is a match. He stepped forward to help:
“I just looked at my wife and said, ‘I have to try,'” he says. “I think it was the fact that I have three kids of my own, and that really resonated with me. If (my wife) needed a kidney and I couldn’t provide for her, I would hope that somebody else would kind of step up and help her out.” The Dall-Leightons’ twins, Mason and Christopher, are 10 months old. Their brother, Hayden, is 5.
Doctors still have to take a few tests. But otherwise, they've tentatively scheduled transplant surgery for May.
-via Huffington Post