Bill English, 35 met his saviour after his wife, Laura set up a Facebook page called, “Be Our Daddy’s Hero” to ask the public for a kidney donor to save her ailing husband.
Laura told People;
“I was hopeful that it would work. I had to do something. We didn’t have anything to lose. When he first got listed [on the organ transplant registry], he was living life on a machine. To ask somebody to give a piece of themselves to keep him alive was a big ask. I was hopeful, but I didn’t necessarily think a stranger was gonna donate.”
There came a selfless female donor, Amy Pauvlinch after sighting the Facebook page.
Amy Pauvlinch said;
I couldn’t even describe the experience. It was pretty surreal. When I first met them, was like, ‘This family gonna have my kidney!’ It was amazing… this is the family that I’m supposed to help and come hell or high water we’re gonna do this together. It was like magic”.
Bill and Pauvlinch after months of testing and preparation finally went into the operation room at the Jefferson University Hospital for the transplant on July 3, 2018.
Bill expressing his happiness said;
“She was a good match and, once we found that out, our level of hope and excitement grew. Mentally, I was prepared for the worst for years. Then all of a sudden it was happening. I didn’t know how to take it. I was too amazed. It hit me, like, ‘Oh my God! this is happening.”
“It’s amazing. I feel like a whole new person. I felt good right away. Once I was out of the anaesthesia, I was in the best mood I’ve been in like three years”.