Pastor Donates a Kidney and It Saves His Life Too

There's a pastor in Kannapolis,(pictured above on the right) North Carolina named Tim Jones. And last fall, he met a guy named Don Herbert who had stage 5 kidney disease, and he needed a transplant. Three days later, Tim says he just felt a calling and decided to donate one of his kidneys, and it's a good thing he did, because it ended up saving his as well as Don's.

The two went into surgery last Monday, and while doctors were removing his kidney they found an aneurysm in one of his arteries that was about to burst!

His surgery took twice as long because of it, but he's OK. His doctors say that if he didn't donate the kidney, they wouldn't have found the aneurysm and it would have killed him.   Don's surgery went well too, and they'll both need about six to eight weeks to recover.

Source: Salisbury Post / WBTV / MyFox8 / Fox News