Last year, two women were chatting in the bathroom at work and both discovered their coworker could help save their husband’s life.
Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis worked at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for over a decade and were in the same department for five years. A mutual friend had told them they had something in common — Wimbush’s husband, Rodney, and Ellis’ husband, Lance, were experiencing kidney failure.
They confided in each other about their husbands’ kidney disease, a condition that affects an estimated 37 million people in the U.S., according to the National Kidney Foundation.
After working from home during the start of the pandemic, the two returned to the office part time in September. One day, their schedules overlapped and they ran into each other in the bathroom. It proved to be a life-changing moment.
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