My husband, Ethan Cole, asked for my kidney on a rainy Tuesday night like he was asking.

Dr.

Salazar asked to speak with me alone.

He closed the consultation room door and sat across from me with my file open in front of him.

“I want to be very clear with you,” he said.

“Your tissue markers are highly unusual.

You are an exceptionally rare match.

In transplant terms, you are the kind of donor some patients wait years to find.”

I remember trying continue reading …