Valhalla, Westchester County (the lady who had a kidney transplant) was reunited with the lady who saved her life as a member of her Church for the first time on Wednesday.

Annika Dennis, 24, received a life-saving operation 5 days back in the medical center of Westchester. The gift of life came lovingly to Jennifer Buda, 35 years old, who watched as Dennis struggled with her condition in her own Kingston Church.

In adolescence, Dennis was diagnosed with lupus, a condition that led to renal scarcity and 2 years on dialysis when she was expecting organ donation.

Dennis was a member of the youth group of Buda in the tabernacle is rich with the life of the Church, and Buda made the offer to be a donor, spotted, in fact they were the "miracle match," a friend of a friend. They know a friend of a friend through the Temple within 6 years.

"She's an elementary amazing person," Dennis said. - She's like my sister, my older sister."

The transplant procedure was carried out safely, and both are experiencing themselves well afterwards discharge. Buda is a nurse who worked with veterans, while Dennis happens to be a culinary secondary school and relies, in fact, that the will from dialysis means, in fact, that she has the opportunity to once discover a personal personal restaurant.

"I'm pretty glad, in fact, that it was successful so far," Buda said. "It works very well for her,and I'm glad, almost no regrets."

The couple reunited for the first time afterwards leaving the clinic, and both tolerably proved themselves in the first examination on Wednesday.

"I look at her and I think,' why not?Buda said. - I'd do it for my own sisters or my brother. Why not her?"

Health professionals talk about the fact that transplantation of living donors with the role of unrelated parties is considered rare, and Dennis and Buda joined the members of the transplant center at the Westchester Medical center.

Of the 75 living donor kidney transplants produced by the Westchester medical center in the last 5 years, this is only the 3rd non-associated donor.

The state of New york contains times of the lowest organ donation characteristics in the United States, and officials suggest that these situations, like this, will encourage others to register as likely donors.