Talk is cheap, and declarations of devotion are easily made.
Tuesday, Craig Ognoskie will demonstrate the depth of his devotion to Megan Size — a woman he met early this year and fell in love with — by giving one of his kidneys to her.
Size, 29, was diagnosed with an intestinal illness several years ago, and one of the medications she was treated with ruined her kidneys.
Last October, a raft of new symptoms put her in the emergency room, and the doctors discovered a rare and life-threatening bone marrow disease called aplastic anemia.
“They had to admit me for a blood transfusion,” Size said. “Apparently, I’d already been in renal failure and wasn’t aware of it. In trying to find the problem for my blood, bone marrow and platelets, they kind of stumbled onto the kidney failure. I was diagnosed with two diseases in the same day.”
Friends and family lined up to try to help, and Size’s younger brother and others tested to donate an organ. None matched.
Under a program that enables a donor who doesn’t match to donate to a third party in exchange for higher placement on a years-long waiting list, Size’s brother was unable to help, either.
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