Mayor Donates Kidney to Save Man's Life
By DIANA PEREZ
Updated 5:05 PM EDT, Wed, Apr 21, 2010
It started with a message on Facebook. April Capone-Almon, the mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, noticed a status update from an acquaintance -- not even a good friend -- with a desparate plea: He needed a kidney, and none of his friends or family were matches.
"So I messaged him immediately and said, 'You know, I'll try,'" Capone-Almon said.
She tried. She was a match.
After months of physical testing, mental testing and plenty of prep work, Capone-Almon gave one of her kidney's to a man she barely knew one of her kidneys. Doctors performed the transplant two weeks ago, and Capone-Almone returned to work this week.
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