Full story here:
http://blog.syracuse.com/news/2008/01/oswego_county_centerpiece_0116.html
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Then, on May 3, 2003, Smith sent Jim Wilson Sr. an e-mail saying he wanted to be compensated for donating his kidney.
Wilson said they would pay his airfare, but because it was illegal to receive money for an organ donation, they wouldn't give him any other cash.
Five months after holding out a lifeline, Lucas Smith disappeared.
Jim Wilson Sr. called the Cedar Rapids police.
On June 13, 2003, Diane Langton e-mailed the Wilsons. She had read about what happened and wanted to help.
Cedar Rapids is Langton’s hometown. She and her husband were born and raised there, and it pained her to have the city associated with the Wilsons’ heartache.
She was healthy, her blood type matched Jim Jr.’s, and she, too, had a son the same age as Jim Jr. “(I) would certainly wish that someone would volunteer to help save his life if necessary,” she wrote the family.
In a four-hour surgery March 16, 2004, doctors at University Hospital removed Langton’s left kidney and placed it in Jim's body. The surgery was a success.
The Wilsons called Langton an angel.
Langton, who now has five grandchildren, said she always felt this is something God wanted done.
“It's very hard to think of a young man like that attached to a machine every day. He needs to get out and live. He needs to do that, and if I can help do that, I'm more than happy to do it,” Langton said in 2004.
She feels the same way today.
“I wouldn't have changed anything,” Langton said Tuesday.
I don’t see you making any judgements about Jim Wilson not wanting to spend a few dollars to save his son’s life.
Of course, you and Jean are perfect people. You must have both donated most of your organs by now. ;-)