A story on local Detroit news motivates a woman to donate her kidney to save a stranger’s life. In 2021, Susan Tower was watching the news and saw a story about Roosevelt Williams, a man she’d never met, needing a life-saving kidney. “I was like, 'hey, I’m type A. He’s type A. Why not?' Why not just see if I can do this,” Susan recalls.
It wasn’t the first time Susan had considered giving a kidney, she planned to donate her kidney to her sister, but unfortunately her sister passed away before the surgery could take place. “So it was always in the back of the mind that I could do this,” she says. “I could help somebody.”
Roosevelt had been on dialysis for years before the transplant. He was desperate to get his health back and when he received word that Susan was willing to help him, he says he cried all day. The two recently underwent successful transplant surgery and now they both feel like they are family. “She calls me her little brother now and that’s my big sister,” Roosevelt says. They were strangers just a few months ago, but now they say they’re blessed to have found each other.
Source: WXYZ