Retired FDNY Firefighter Kevin Shea, who was nearly killed while responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, met the woman he donated a kidney to six months ago, writes Dean Balsamini in the NY Post.
Lois Knudson was stricken with an always-fatal hereditary kidney disease that killed her sister and mother and a kidney transplant was her only hope. Fourteen attempted transplants failed over a four-year waiting period. Because her niece donated a kidney in a donation “chain,” Knudson became eligible for a kidney and Shea’s kidney matched.
