Single Mom With 2 Failing Kidneys Saved By Stranger

WINCHESTER (CBS) – A single mother with two failing kidneys was saved by the kindness of a complete stranger. “I work as a web developer. She’s a web designer,” Kara Yimoyines said. “She’s from the Midwest. I’m from the Midwest,” said Nicole Baltzer. “We both like sports.” This months-old friendship feels in so many ways meant to be. Once-strangers in the same town, now connected for life. “I certainly never set out to be a living donor as part of my life plan,” Nicole said. Nicole Baltzer and Kara Yimoyines (WBZ-TV) But that plan took a new direction, when Nicole read a Facebook post from a single mom with lupus growing sicker, waiting for a new kidney. “I remember reading it and feeling so bad. This is so unfair,” Nicole said. “That’s when it really hit me. I can do something about this. Maybe I’m a match.” Nicole Baltzer and Kara Yimoyines (WBZ-TV) After months of screening and just before Christmas, doctors used words like “perfect match.” On a winter morning at Tufts, from one Winchester mother to another, the gift of a kidney and so much more. “From not being able to play with my kids and being asleep most of the time. Not feeling good, to recovering who I was a few years ago,” Kara said. “Giving me that time back with my children. Allowing me to be involved in their lives in a way I hadn’t been.” Nicole’s selfless sacrifice is now a priceless lesson for her own daughter. “I think ...
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