Wanda Walker was distraught over her ailing daughter and frequently confided in a close co-worker who helped ease her pain. Unbeknown to both of them, that colleague would eventually save her daughter's life.
Northwestern Medicine performed a chain of anonymous kidney transplants just before Christmas, with three living donors who all thought they were giving their organs to help strangers. By rare coincidence, one donor and recipient were already entwined before surgery: 31-year-old Alecia Walker of Chicago's South Shore neighborhood now has the kidney of 33-year-old Kevin McCallister of Wood Dale, the man her mother once leaned on for support at work.
"Oh my goodness! Oh wow!" Wanda Walker, 55, repeated through tears after doctors revealed the benefactors to their kidney recipients last week at a follow-up appointment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital downtown. "This is her second chance."
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