Just months after their wedding day, a Pasadena woman gave her husband a kidney to save his life.
When kidney transplant recipient Tom Hylton and his wife, Wanda, of Pasadena, went on their honeymoon to Aruba in April 1998, they expected it to be filled with fun and joy. What they didn’t expect was for Tom to come home in need of a second life-saving kidney donation.
“We got married 14 years ago in April and we were on our honeymoon and he started feeling sick,” said Wanda. “That’s when we realized his kidney transplant had started to fail.”
They came home from their honeymoon and took Tom, whose first transplant was in 1986, to the doctor. There they found out he was going to need a second transplant, and that Wanda was a match.
“For me it was an easy decision,” Wanda said. “When we were at the actual transplant unit they immediately asked ‘do you know anyone who can donate?’ His brothers and sisters can’t because they all have some kidney issues. So I said, ‘I’ll do it,’ and he kept telling me I wasn’t and I kept telling him I was. I had no qualms. The minute they told me he needed a transplant I was ready.”
For Tom, who has suffered from kidney disease most of his life, it wasn’t as simple as just letting his wife give him her kidney because she had two children from a previous marriage to think about.
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