The past year has been a whirlwind for Ashley McIntyre and Danny Robinson — a kidney donor and kidney transplant patient, respectively, who started the year as strangers and finished it as fiancés.
Ashley first heard about Danny from her mom, who had learned about his tragic story on a local Louisville, Kentucky radio show. Danny was a 25-year-old electrician working full-time while undergoing 12 hours of dialysis a week to manage an inflammatory kidney disease called IgA nephropathy. He needed a transplant, but none of his family members were a match.
“He lost his father to brain cancer in 2012 and their house burnt down on Christmas Day in 2011,” Ashley told The Huffington Post. “It was just one thing after the other. Hearing all of that and knowing he was only 25 was a lot for anybody.”
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H/T The Courier-Journal
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