A Missouri daughter gave her old man the shock of a lifetime when she defied him and secretly donated her kidney to him.
John Ivanowski, who suffers from a type of kidney disease, relied on a dialysis machine every couple of days for about five hours every time. While daughter Delayne, 25, urged him to let her donate her organ to enhance his health and quality of life, he kept saying no, in line with reports.
“I’m like, ‘You’re too young, you’ve got an extended time to be here and my time’s limited’,” the stubborn 60-year-old father told KMOV.
But Delayne’s persistence was an excessive amount of to beat, and he or she began the strategy of donating behind his back.
She told the news station she reached out to his coordinator, and once her father was in adequate shape for the transplant, they began running tests on her to ensure she was a match.
“I used to be like, ‘I’m going to do it. I don’t care how mad he’s at me. I don’t care if he kicks me out of the home or hates me or doesn’t say a word to me for the remaining of my life,’” the nurse told ABC News. “Not less than he’ll be living an excellent life and never connected to a machine.”
The gift from daughter to father took place with John unaware until the surgery was done and he or she got here walking through his hospital room door the following day.
The heartwarming moment was filmed and posted to TikTok by Delayne that showed her father in complete shock when she walked in.
“Oh my God, are you kidding me,” he said as began to get choked up. “I knew you were as much as something.”
John’s objections were partially on account of a tragedy the family endured when his son died 16 years ago from neuroblastoma, a kind of cancer, ABC News reported. But a physician told the outlet there isn’t a greater risk to the health of a living donor than in the event that they hold onto all their organs.
Delayne posted the tear-jerking footage on social media in hopes of raising funds to cover the transplant.
She asked for $6,000 to cover surgery expenses; as of Tuesday night greater than $10,000 was raised.
Any anger John initially held has disappeared now that he now not needs dialysis.
“I wouldn’t change a thing. I feel so a lot better,” he told ABC News.