Four years ago, Glenn Calderbank lost his wife, Jessica, to kidney failure.
Now, he thinks that fate — and his deceased wife — somehow brought him to a woman in need of a kidney so that he could help her.
Glenn was simply browsing Craigslist's construction section when he came across an ad that caught his eye. Not only was the ad in the wrong section of the popular website, but it was asking for anyone willing to donate a kidney to the advertiser's wife.
This brought the New Jersey man back to his own experience looking for a kidney for his wife, who received a cadaver's before her body rejected it and she passed away. Glenn had even placed an ad in the paper, but with no luck.
He contacted the couple, and after several conversations, was convinced that he was a match. To him, coming across this ad wasn't a coincidence. And in fact, he and the would-be recipient have the same blood type. Until now, she was on the transplant waiting list for over a year.
“I was meant to see that," he says.
The surgery is scheduled for next month. And although the woman receiving Glenn's kidney isn't quite out of the woods yet, we're hoping that both recipient and donor come out of surgery healthy and happy!
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