How Twitter saved one woman's life, changed another

KVUE Austin | Carey Pena

PHOENIX -- “I’m a social media junkie,” said Amy Donohue. “I live, breathe, eat Twitter.” As it turns out, Twitter would change her life.

Donohue saw a post about a woman across town in Surprise who needed a kidney transplant.

“When I saw that I was just like – 'I’ll do it,'” she told us. “I’m East Coast, so I talk before I think. Normally it gets me in trouble and this time I lost an organ because of it.”

“I don’t know what inspired her. But I couldn’t be more grateful,” said Kirti Dwivedi, whose mom, Anu, was dying from kidney failure.

In an effort to help her, Dwivedi took to Twitter and Facebook to tell the family’s story. Donohue saw the tweet and called Dwivedi to find out more.

“She said you have one mom and I have two kidneys,” Dwivedi told us. “And I didn’t have any words.”

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