Ken Roig leaves Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans Wednesday after getting a kidney from his son-in-law, Alex McLean of Greenville. / Provided
Everyone in the family had been tested. Brothers, sisters, children. No one was a match.
So Ken Roig continued the dialysis that had been keeping him alive since his kidneys began failing 16 months earlier.
And the family resigned themselves to waiting three to five years for a kidney that would match his rare blood type while watching him struggle through the debilitating treatments.
“I was the last one to be tested and I was not a match. It was devastating,” Roig’s daughter, Kelly McLean, told GreenvilleOnline.com.
“Then Alex came to me one day and said, ‘I want to get tested.’ ”
Since blood relatives had been disqualified as donors, Kelly figured her husband, Alex, would be, too. So she was stunned when the 32-year-old Elliott Davis CPA turned out to be a perfect match.
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