Six-year-old Matthew Parker spends three days a week getting dialysis treatment at University Hospital in San Antonio. Because of this, Matthew, a triplet, isn’t able to join his brothers in their first-grade class every day.
But thanks to their teacher, Lindsey Painter, that is about to change.
Last fall, the hospital’s transplant center was searching for an altruistic kidney donor for Matthew — “basically a stranger who [has] a good heart and wants to do well or good,” as Matthew’s nephrologist, Dr. Mazen Arar, told a local NBC station.
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The University Transplant Center set up a website, MattsWish.com, when Matthew was looking for donors. After Painter was found to be a match, Matthew’s family decided to keep the site going in order to raise awareness and help other children looking for donors.
“We’re keeping it up, so if there’s other people who want to be a donor for somebody else, we want to give them an opportunity,” Parker said. “There’s other kids here doing dialysis, and they need a kidney too.”
(h/t BuzzFeed)
