Although they both serve at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Sgt. Craig Santos never knew Cpl. Stephanie St. Laurent. Now these two Marine families have a bond that can't be broken.
"She's my angel," said Santos' wife, Angela. "I keep telling her she's my angel because without her, I couldn't have done anything."
Angela Santos was diagnosed with kidney disease about three years ago, when she was six weeks pregnant. She said it got worse and was waiting on the transplant list for nearly a year.
"It was scary. I was getting close to being on dialysis because I was getting weaker," said Angela Santos. "I was taking shots and getting iron pumped in me. I was at the lowest I think I could have gone."
Her husband was desperate and decided to take action.
"I went through Craiglist and Twitter, tried to put an advertisement out there because we had already tried everyone in our family. So, I put it on Beaufort Yard Sales, which is local and within 48 hours we had 6 people respond," said Craig Santos.
St. Laurent was one of them.
"I saw a big sign that said kidney needed and when I went on there and read it, I thought it was a little strange because I didn't know you could give up a kidney," said St. Laurent.
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