A Bucks County resident recently underwent a major surgery to save a life, with her good friend benefitting from the act of kindness. Meredith Mann wrote about the local resident for Penn Medicine News.

Molly Gray, a Yardley resident and counselor at Pennwood Middle School, recently underwent a kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Pavilion. Just doors down was her friend Dan Napoleon, a resident of Trenton, New Jersey, who received a new kidney. It was not Gray’s, but his transplant came as a direct result of her procedure.

Upon learning that Napoleon needed a new kidney, Gray went to see if she was a good candidate. She was healthy, but she was a different blood type from Napoleon, making her chances of donating to him nonexistent.

However, she was able to donate to someone else, who was able to give their other kidney to Napoleon. While his new kidney is not that of Gray, he still benefitted from her kind act.

“Very rarely am I speechless,” said Napoleon. “Then I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, this is happening!’ It was such a selfless act.”

Read more about the two friend’s recent surgeries at Penn Medicine News.

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Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on BUCKSCO Today in October 2022.