Tom McDonaldâs health problems were serious, but the text message he sent to his friend was not meant that way.
McDonald was joking when he messaged his buddy to say, "Hey Chris, if youâre not doing anything with a kidney, can I borrow one? Haha."
McDonald had just received some tough news.
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Both of his failing kidneys had deteriorated to the point where he needed a new one, and he was being added to the long list of people from the region seeking a donation.
McDonald often felt lousy and was getting worse, and the odds were the 52-year-old Lower Heidelberg Township man would need to wait three to five years to receive a kidney from a deceased donor while enduring many grueling sessions of dialysis.