Andrea Kringstein was enjoying life and watching her two children grow up when she got a shocking diagnosis. Doctors told her she had polycystic kidney disease, a genetic condition where cysts grow, slowly causing kidney failure. She didn't want her children to grow up without a mother, so she went on a desperate search to find a kidney donor.
After she discovered a non-profit website called MatchingDonors.com, where patients are introduced to people willing to donate organs, Kringstein found Annaleigh Sage Bergman. The two women instantly connected, and after months of medical tests, Bergman was approved as a match! Since then, the two women have completed the life-saving transplant surgery and are on the road to recovery.
This is truly an incredible story about altruism, as Bergman — along with the other donors on the Website — can't make a penny (from donating). They just want to help someone. Please SHARE this incredible story.
