Orange with 6Medias, published on Monday, February 13, 2023 at 10:15 p.m.
Debbie Onishenko, a 62-year-old Canadian, managed to find a donor for her kidney transplant after leaving a help message on her vehicle.
A beautiful story from across the Atlantic. In Saskatoon, a city near Edmonton in Canada, Debbie Onishenko has had diabetes since she was a teenager.
Now 62, the woman lives on dialysis because her kidneys, badly affected by the disease, are only working at 9% of their capacity, reports West France, Monday, February 13. If she wants to live, Debbie has no other choice, she will have to undergo a kidney transplant. A diagnosis announced to him by the doctors last summer, specifies the regional daily. In an emergency, the sexagenarian writes a cry for help. “Need a group O kidney. Give the one you have in reserve”she sticks in white letters on the rear window of her red car, indicating her telephone number, explains Radio-Canada.
The operation scheduled for the end of February
In August, Debbie receives the call that will change her life. That of a certain Brent Kruger. “Roses are red, violets are blue, I have a kidney and I will give it to you”, he told her over the phone. The height of fate, the man did not read the message displayed on the vehicle, but discovered the story on the Internet, specifies the local media. A compatible donor thanks to his blood group, Brent Kruger still submits to numerous tests so that doctors can ensure the success of the company. After talking remotely for months, Debbie and Brent met and hugged on Jan. 28 at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon. According West Franceit’s just a month later, on February 28, that the surgery should take place which will bind them, even a little more, for life.