Aww! This Lady Donated Her Kidney To A Stranger,now They're Gettin Married!!

The past year has been a whirlwind for Ashley McIntyre and
Danny Robinson -- a kidney donor and kidney transplant
patient, respectively, who started the year as strangers and
finished it as fiancés.
Ashley first heard about Danny from her mom, who had
learned about his tragic story on a local Louisville, Kentucky
radio show. Danny was a 25-year-old electrician working full-
time while undergoing 12 hours of dialysis a week to manage
an inflammatory kidney disease called IgA nephropathy. He
needed a transplant, but none of his family members were a
match.
"He lost his father to brain cancer in 2012 and their house
burnt down on Christmas Day in 2011," Ashley told The
Huffington Post. "It was just one thing after the other. Hearing
all of that and knowing he was only 25 was a lot for
anybody."
When asked what compelled her to make such a sacrifice for a
stranger, she simply said,
"I took the whole process very seriously -- I did my research
and everything. But to me, as long as the doctor said I was
fine and I was going to be fine and that it would work for
Danny, it was like, why not give up a kidney to
someone who needs it?"
Ashley and Danny were a match throughout each step of the
pre-transplant testing. She told HuffPost Weddings that she
had been adamant about not meeting Danny and his family
until the surgery seemed like a sure thing; up until that point,
she had been primarily corresponding with his mom. So in
March 2014, they finally met face-to-face with their families
at The Cheesecake Factory.
"I was extremely nervous -- over-the-top nervous," Ashley
said of their first encounter.
"But as soon as we sat down and started talking, it was like
immediately I just felt like I had known him forever. Everything
his mom had told me up until that point was true -- about
him being a truly good human being, just a good person all
the way around. My dad was very taken aback about how put
together he was. He said he could tell he was a genuine
person."
On April 17, 2014, Ashley and Danny went in for surgery at the
University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital in
Lexington. Both procedures were successful -- the transplant
surgeon told The Courier-Journal that there were no
complications in either operation.
But it wasn't until after the transplant that Ashley and
Danny's bond turned into a romantic one. Ashley cites a
Memorial Day Weekend barbecue as the turning point in their
relationship.
"It was really clear early on that this was 'it,'" she told The
Courier-Journal.
On Christmas Day 2014, Danny proposed to Ashley in front of
his family. She said 'yes,' and the pair is expecting their first
child together -- a baby girl they've named Berkli -- in June.
"It still doesn't register to me," Ashley said about the crazy
year they've had. "Before all of this [attention], we don't really
think about our situation. We just live our daily lives. So to
relive it all is kind of surreal, but it's awesome."