DALLAS - Many men wouldn't admit it. But Jonathan Woodlief openly says he owes a lot to the women in his life.
"I'm a lucky man," Woodlief said with a laugh. "I'm really grateful."
As a child, lupus destroyed his kidneys.
At 18, Woodlief received a transplant from his mother. Last year, that kidney started failing.
Doctors told him antibodies from his mom's kidney, along with blood transfusions, made it nearly impossible to find a match this time.
"So my antibodies are about 99 percent, which means that I match to about one percent of the population," Woodlief said. "That was definitely... just heartbreaking to hear."
But Woodlief married anyway in October.
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