Uber driver Tim Letts, 33, decided to donate a kidney to passenger Bill Sumiel, 71, after they connected during a chance encounter.
A New Jersey man in desperate need of a kidney says he’s been given “the gift of life” after an Uber driver unexpectedly offered up his own organ for donation.
The pair quickly struck up a conversation on the 30-minute drive back to Sumiel’s home in Salem, New Jersey, with Letts learning the devout Christian had been in desperate need of a kidney transplant for more than three years.“About halfway home after talking the whole way and slowly becoming friends, Tim tells me that ‘I think God must have put you in my car.'”“[He said] If you’ll take my name and number, I’ll give a kidney to you,” Sumiel recalled.
“I didn’t want to look in the mirror later down the road and think, ‘Wow, man, you suck. You could have done something and you didn’t, because you talked yourself out of it or because you let other people talk you out of it,’” Letts continued. “Good people need good people to stand by them, and don’t call yourself a good person if you’re not willing to stand by another good person.”
Almost two years on from his miraculous meeting with Letts, Sumiel has said he is almost living life as normal.
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