A woman in Wales named Lucy potentially only had a few years to live when she took a trip to the beach with her partner and two dogs, but\u00a0thanks to a chance encounter with a stranger “chosen” by one of her pets, her life was saved.<\/p>\n
After living with lupus for more than a decade and a half, Lucy’s kidneys failed. In 2019 she was told she might only have five years to live without a transplant. So Lucy and her partner planned a two-day trip away with their two Dobermans, Jake and Indie.<\/p>\n
While barbequing near the beach, Indie kept going over to a woman on the beach nearby and wouldn’t leave her alone. Lucy went over to apologize and met Katie, who they invited to join their BBQ.<\/p>\n
The two started talking and Lucy mentioned she was waiting on a kidney transplant. Turns out Katie had just registered to be a kidney donor!<\/p>\n
Testing showed that Katie and Lucy were a perfect match. Doctors say the odds of finding a perfect match at one in 22 million.<\/p>\n
The surgery was delayed by the pandemic, but the transplant took place in October of 2022, and it was a success. All thanks to Indie the Doberman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in Wales named Lucy potentially only had a few years to live when she took a trip to the beach with her partner and two dogs, but\u00a0thanks to a chance encounter with a stranger “chosen” by one of her pets, her life was saved.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 20:54:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/05\/dog-finds-owner-a-kidney-donor\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34530,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34529\/revisions\/34530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}