He married the woman who donated kidney 10 years ago and now needs another transplant.

April 8, 2019

The woman donated kidney without knowing it, they fell in love and got married. A decade later, you need another transplant where you need to start dialysis.

Kyle Froelich was 12 years old when he was diagnosed with a disease. which caused the accumulation of antibodies in the kidneys. Once inflamed, the organs could not fulfill their filtering function.

the 19 years old, the young man was on the waiting list for a transplant. His family and friends were not compatible with him. For a friend in common, Chelsea Claire decided to give him one of her kidneys.

Claire's father had died in 2006, while waiting for a bone marrow donor. The young woman told the magazine The health: "When I discovered their situation, it was like ours and I felt like I could help."

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Claire and Froelich met in 2010. They were together during the medical process, then they started dating and fell in love. Three years after the transplant, they got married. But the kidney that she gave him started to fail.

The couple explained that if they could not get another organ over the next 12 months, this 28-year-old should start dialysis. Although pneumonia has complicated the picture, do not lose hope. "We have already done so, so you have to be optimistic. I do not even worry, I'm convinced that this will happen"Said Kyle.

While they knew it could happen, they never thought it would be so soon. The couple has a six year old son. In turn, she has a 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

The attending physician Kyle explained that it is common for transplant patients to need a second and even a third organ.

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While Kyle is on the waiting list for an organ donation, according to National Kidney Foundation, there are about 100 thousand people waiting for one. Dr. Tim Taber, a nephrologist at Indiana University and Kyle's doctor, said the wait was going up to six years. The time that Kyle does not have.

Their environment is not compatible, so they decided to tell their story to get support from other people and increase their chances of finding a donor.