David Clark, 63, gets ready to start his peritoneal dialysis treatment at his home in Richland, Mich., on Nov. 4, 2103. Clark has been on dialysis since April 2012. Patrick Record | The Ann Arbor News.
Bonnie Clark couldn’t save her husband’s life, so she saved someone else’s instead.
In return, someone else saved her husband’s life.
Through a nine-person kidney donation and transplant chain orchestrated in part by the University of Michigan Health System, the Richland woman donated a kidney to an unidentified recipient.
Doctors removed her organ Nov. 7 at the U-M medical center in Ann Arbor, packaged it delicately on ice in a cooler and shipped it on a commercial flight from Detroit Metro Airport to Philadelphia International Airport.
In a miraculously roundabout sacrifice, Bonnie allowed her ailing husband, David, to receive a kidney transplant from another unidentified donor.
“We’ve only been married 10 years. I want it to last a while,” she said in an interview at her apartment, which was packed full of dialysis equipment that kept David alive before the transplant.
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