Facebook Post Inspires Man to Donate Kidney

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A man made a kidney donation in response to a Facebook status for help posted by a woman whose husband desperately needed a donor. Ricky Cisco decided to donate the organ when he saw the message from his Facebook friend, Roxy Kurze, who posted, "Wishing a kidney would fall out of the sky so my husband can stop suffering. So if anyone knows of a live donor with type O blood, PLEASE let me know."

Ricky Cisco, 25, didn't know Jeff Kurze by name. But he knew Roxy only slightly. At his computer, on Facebook one day, he saw her posting for a Type O donor and was intrigued. He was Type O.

Cisco sent Roxy Kurze a message about an hour after she posted her desperate message, saying he wanted to talk more. He started researching the organ donor process that night. "The more I learned, the more those fears just sort of went away," Cisco said. Shortly after he began to consider giving up his left kidney, Cisco met with Jeff Kurze and recognized him. The two had met a year ago when Kurze, a computer salesman, sold Cisco a laptop.

So the two strangers met for coffee. "He hugged me and said, 'I want to give my kidney to your husband,'" Roxy said. "I said, 'You don't even know us -- you don't know me, you don't know my husband.'"

The transplant was a success and both men are now recovering better than was expected. “I was so in shock and awe -- just could hardly breath or anything,” recounted Kurze. “I was just so excited this was actually going to happen.” The two men are more than Facebook friends now; "We’ve become friends through this and hang out a lot," said Kurze. "We probably see each other once a week."