Man doing well after receiving ‘miracle’ kidney

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Family tells us a Stallings man is doing well after receiving a kidney from an Indian Land woman who until recently he’d never met.

 

It turned out the woman, who is also doing well, was such a perfect match for him, it’s as if she’s his sister — even though they’re not related at all.

 

David Ensley of Stallings has suffered from polycystic kidney disease since 2001.  Things took a turn for the worse in 2009 when his kidney failed.  He needs a new one or he says he will eventually die.

 

But finding a donor proved difficult.  His siblings were unable to donate.

 

Even though she knew it was a longshot, in March one of those sisters, Jennifer Scoggins, decided to set up a Facebook page to look for a donor.

 

“A girlfriend of mine called and said she had a co-worker that had actually found her match on Facebook,” Jennifer said.  “I thought, ‘what do we have to lose?’  I mean, at [that] point, as sick as he was, why not?”

 

One of the people who saw that Jennifer had created the page was an old friend of her and David’s named Chuck Cunningham.

 

“I just mentioned it to my wife, and said, you know, this is sort of a shame,” Chuck said.

 

Chuck’s wife Amy felt moved by the situation.

 

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