With an enormous 1,600 “friends” on Facebook, Connecticut Mayor April Capone Almon has observed one of them to be needing something very important. This man has posted in his status that his friends and relatives had all been tested and couldn’t donate a kidney for him. His name is Carlos Sanchez. He is a 44-year-old father whose kidneys were failing because of diabetes, he sent out the request on Facebook only hesitantly and on his doctor’s suggestion. This could have been his happiest day when the very first person to respond is now other than Mayor Almon. She knew him casually through activities and friends in the New Haven, a suburb of East Haven wherein Almon serves. “I sent him a private message and just said, ‘Hey, I’ll try. I’ll get tested,’” Capone Almon said Wednesday. “I really felt from the very beginning that I was going to be a match and a donor. I don’t know why, but I just knew it.” “I thought she was joking. The mayor of East Haven would offer me her kidney?” said Sanchez, an office administrator. “She responded back and said, ‘I am serious, I am willing to get tested.’ “I wasn’t putting too much faith in it,” he said. “I didn’t want to get my hopes high. But at a point she made me feel so comfortable that I started feeling maybe this was meant to be.” April 8, when doctors at Yale-New Haven Hospital removed Capone Almon’s left kidney and transplanted it into Sanchez. They were released from the hospital in less than a week and are expected to make full recoveries. His insurance paid for both their surgeries, and the mayor is back on the job in this middle-class city of about 30,000. Connecticut Mayor April Almon Donates Kidney to Facebook Friend is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →
