When Becca Bundy's young daughter was having a seizure at home, volunteer firefighter Bill Cox was the first person to help. Two years later, the Minnesota woman was able to offer a lifesaving thank you, by giving him one of her kidneys.
Cox has volunteered with the Bearville Volunteer Fire Department in northern Minnesota for about six years and is trained as a first responder. He got the call to help Bundy's daughter in August 2016."I got there and helped settle people down until an ambulance could get there and take care of her," he told CNN.The two met again in October 2018 when Bundy went to a benefit for a neighbor at the Viking Bar, where Cox has worked for 16 years.
Raja Kandaswamy, the director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program with University of Minnesota Health, said that more than 100,000 people are waiting for a new kidney, and that list grows every year. He said that there is a huge need for donors."So there was an urgency for him to find a live donor, because the waiting time for an organ to come from a deceased donor could be five to seven years in Minnesota," he said.
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