How A Tinder Date Led To A Lifesaving Kidney Donation

ABC Breaking News | Latest News Videos While scrolling through Tinder over the summer, this guy swiped right -- very, very right. Rich O’Dea, a man from Tampa, Florida, and his match from the dating app, Jennifer Thomas, unexpectedly helped save a life, when the pair found out Thomas was a donor match for O’Dea’s best friend’s wife who needed a kidney transplant, ABC News reported. While out on their first date after being paired on the app, O’Dea shared with Thomas that his friend's wife, Erika Bragan, had been on the kidney donor list for nearly three years, and just days after the date, Thomas reached out to help. “All that happened was we had a conversation about it,” Thomas told the news outlet. “He told me about her and I wanted to do something.” (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Donor and recipient Jen and Erika with the the original 3 - Team Tampa PKDPosted by Rich O'Dea on Sunday, November 8, 2015 Thomas and O’Dea went on their first date to a concert in July. O’Dea explained to Thomas then that Erika -- a 47-year-old mother of two -- had a genetic disorder called polycystic kidney disease, but because of her O-negative blood type, had difficu...
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