Sometimes being in the right place at the right time can make all the difference in your life, and if this 21-year-old Army reservist was running just eight seconds late or early, he never would have seen a sign that would give him the opportunity to save a stranger’s life.
21-year-old Army reservist Nate Toci was driving home from work on Interstate 25 in Monument when he passed by a rotating billboard sign that read “Kesley Needs A Kidney” and in that moment, Nate knew he had to find a way to help. “It’s a digital sign and it’s on for 8 seconds,” Debbie Crider, Kelsey’s mom, said. “Eight seconds and then it goes away and the next one comes up.”
“I felt like I had to do it,” Nate said after seeing the sign. “It wasn’t a question. It was like, ‘I’m doing this. Whatever it takes.’” But before he could get ahead of himself, Nate had to first get tested to see if his kidney was even a match.
Incredibly, the tests showed Nate has Type O blood, which was a perfect match for Kelsey Crider, who had been diagnosed with kidney disease when she was just 17 and has since received three other kidney transplants in 10 years.
Despite some initial complications for Kelsey, both surgeries went well, and the two were finally able to meet each other and bond as they both recovered. “Nate is the kind of guy that will just go out and give himself to other people,” Crider said of the once stranger who is now like family.
“It gave me such good hopes for the future, not just for my daughter but for the country,” Debbie Crider said. “It’s like yeah, there are good people out there.”
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