(Ross D. Franklin/ Associated Press) Rita Van Loenen, of Gilbert, Arizona, with her driver, Thomas Chappell, at a kidney dialysis treatment appointment in Tempe, Arizona.
Arizona Woman Finds Taxi Driver is a Kidney Match
AUGUST 25, 2009Terry Tang, Associated Press
Rita Van Loenen had no idea that a trip in Thomas Chappell's taxi cab could end up being the ride that saves her life.
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Chappell, who has been driving Van Loenen to dialysis appointments, shocked the Gilbert, Ariz., woman a month ago by offering to donate his kidney. But even more shocking to her was that doctors found they had the same blood type, that they were compatible.
