This Waitress Donated A Kidney So A Customer Could Take Another Shot At Life

Donating a kidney to a friend or family member is a HUGE sacrifice, but what about donating to somebody you barely know?

That’s exactly what Mariana Villareal of Roswell, Georgia did for customer Donald Thomas. Villareal worked at a local Hooters and Thomas was a customer at the establishment for many years. However, after knowing the man for only about three months and hearing about Thomas’s condition, Villareal decided to give him a kidney.

“I said, ‘Well I have two kidneys, do you want one of mine?'”

With that simple exchange and a lot of deep thinking, the two decided to move forward and undergo the surgery.

Thomas is a Vietnam War veteran and father who lost his wife to breast cancer a few years ago. Villareal lost her own grandmother to kidney failure. Unable to help her beloved grandmother, the waitress had wanted to pay it forward to Thomas.

Today is the big day after 2 years of constant doctor visits my favorite hooters guest will finally get a chance at a normal life again. This is Donald Thomas or as all the girls at hooters know him "The DON!" He's been going to Roswell hooters for more than 10 years. He's a Vietnam war veteran, father of 2, His wife past away from breast cancer and a few years later he got kidney failure. After 3 months of working there and knowing him God answered my prayer but most important answered his prayer of years! I've been praying for God to answer me if donating one of my kidneys was the right thing to do and The Don was praying for a donor that may have never appeared. He sent me to this world to serve him and others and as a daughter of God I offered him one of my kidneys. Many people think I'm crazy because of the age difference but then again age is just a number, it's how young your heart is and your desire to live. Around the same time I met him my grandmother was going through something similar but I wasn't able to help her and it will forever be in my heart. My higher calling maybe wasn't for my grandma but for a complete stranger. NO he's not paying me for a kidney or tips me really good, just to clarify ! He's just an ordinary person with the desire to live a few more years. If he can live 2 more year the happiest he's ever been without having to sit in a room 3 times a week filtering his blood for 8 hours and finally have a full glass of water or finally get to pee again then go ahead take my kidney. I know God will give him way more years to come. All I ask is for prayers and for all of you to be thankful that you're healthy and alive because some people do have it worst! #godisgood

A photo posted by Mariana Tolentino (@mariana_tolentino7) on May 29, 2015 at 12:52am PDT

This following video was filmed before the surgery, and since then, all has gone well with these two. Both are alive, well, and living life to the fullest:

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This Waitress Donated A Kidney So A Customer Could Take Another Shot At Life is an article from: LifeDaily