Woman donate a kidney to stranger then married him
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A WOMAN who promised to donate one of her kidneys to a man she barely knew has married him three years after his successful transplant surgery.
Chelsea Clair and Kyle Froelich met at a 2009 car show in Indiana when he was 19 and she was 22. It was his senior year at Brownsburg High School, the last year the doctors thought he would live.
After meeting at the car show Mr Froelich and his best friend tagged along with Ms Clair to the carwash. She let him drive the Camaro and he ended up scuffing one of the rims.
Ms Clair had never met Mr Froelich before but she had heard about his plight though a family friend and had already offered to raise awareness for his cause.
Ms Clair told him right then that she would give him one of her kidneys.
She underwent the necessary tests and ended up being a near perfect match.
She says her family were worried about her decision.
"Chelsea, you can’t just go to Wal-Mart and buy a kidney," her family told her.
She says perhaps her decision to donate had something to do with her father who had died before he was able to find bone marrow transplant.
Her decision initially drove a wedge between her and her mother.
"I felt like I had nobody," she said.
After Ms Clair's kidney was transplanted into Mr Froelich it started working right away.
The couple was married October 12 at the Danville Conservation Club, the venue that hosted the car show where they met.
Ms Clair has a six-year-old daughter, Aby, from her previous marriage and she and Mr Froelich have an 11-month-old son, Wyatt.
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