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Need a hoover? What about a kidney?
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12-10-2007 2:19pm#1http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=305133
Heard this on the radio last night.
Nice story for a Friday. Great to see an act of kindness like this
article wrote:A chance meeting between a vacuum cleaner salesman and a would-be customer in the US has led to an altogether different transaction — the donation of a kidney.
Three years ago, 35-year-old Paul Sucher's kidneys failed, leading to costly dialysis and a wait on the local university's 500-person-long transplant list.
Then, six months ago Jamie Howard came to Sucher's door in his capacity as a salesman for Kirby vacuum cleaners.
"We were out knocking doors, doing what we do — trying to set appointments to demonstrate the Kirby vacuum for people," he said.
Sucher's girlfriend Andi Wofford told him they couldn't afford one because of the medical problems.
"I jokingly said to him 'you donate a kidney and we'll buy a vacuum'," Wofford said.
But Howard was compelled by the couple's plight.
"I just felt moved to help if I could," he said.
Research revealed Howard and Sucher shared blood types, and Howard decided he would go through with the plan.
Howard's wife Marcy admits she was shocked, "but I knew he said yes and he would go on with it".
"I told him at the very beginning, 'I will support you if that's what you want to do'," she said.
The operation took place in August, and Sucher says he feels great — almost as if he'd never lost his kidneys in the first place.
He sees it as ''truly a miracle", and his girlfriend agrees.
"It's hard to believe that someone that you don't know, who has no connection to you previously, would be willing to give that much," she said.
And Howard hopes the story will help the slightly shabby image door-to-door salesmen have.
"The next time somebody knocks on the door and they're offering to clean your carpet for free, you might want to think about it because you never know what they're gonna do when they get in the house," he said.
Oh, and they never did buy a hoover of him either!
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lolololwhiskeyman wrote: »http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=305133
Heard this on the radio last night.
Nice story for a Friday. Great to see an act of kindness like this
Oh, and they never did buy a hoover of him either!
Joke's on the hoover guy!
Anybody know how much it takes off your life to have a kidney removed?0 -
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As long as they don't implant it by sticking it up your ass, I think you're grandconnundrum wrote: »Its all good and well, but I dunno if I'd be happy about having another mans kidney inside me. Seems a bit ghey tbh
Fair play to the lad, vacuum salesmen are the salt of the earth in my book. 0 -
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That must have sucked.whiskeyman wrote: »Oh, and they never did buy a hoover of him either!
/heads for airport.0
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