Barbara Thomas, who rents a home to the couple and their six children in Sleepy Hollow, asked Shira Love what her husband needed to avoid kidney dialysis. Born with sickle cell anemia, he had endured years of excruciating pain and renal failure.
Shira Love told Thomas that he desperately needed a kidney but that it was hard to find a match because of his O-positive blood type.
"The second Shira said James needed a kidney, I knew," said Thomas, who is O-negative, a compatible blood type. "It was like I heard a voice saying in my head, 'It is you.' I didn't really think about it. I just did it."
Thomas donated a kidney on Thursday to Love at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood. Both were expected to be discharged on Saturday.
"She said, 'God showed me I was the one who is supposed to give you this kidney,' " James Love said on Friday from his recovery room bed. Thomas said she was sleepy but doing "just fine."
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