Northern Sask. couple gives new meaning to 'perfect match' with kidney donation
CBC
A northern couple who have been together for a decade were happy to learn they were the perfect match for kidney donation.
Crystal Morin-Marinuk and her husband Darwin Morin have been together for 10 years. They have been dealing with trials and tribulations around Darwin's health since the beginning.
"When we first started dating, he had already been suffering from some of the effects of kidney disease, as his kidneys were starting to fail," Crystal said.
Darwin, who is Type 1 diabetic from childhood, was in need of a kidney transplant.
"I noticed just a lot of deterioration with everything, with his strength, with the way he moved around and headaches," Crystal said.
As they waited years for a match with an eligible donor, she witnessed him becoming more and more sick.
"I started to think, 'We need to try and see if we have any family that might be a match.' Then I thought, 'I think I need to test as well,'" Crystal said.
She said she knew the chances of her being a match wasn't great, but they were desperate.
"I can't do this day-to-day and have that little thought at the back of my mind," Crystal remembers thinking. "What if, just what if, there's a chance that we match?"
They took a crossmatch test, which determines whether two people are compatible for donation.
After waiting weeks for the results, they received the biggest news of their lives. They were a match.
"They just said, 'Do you know this person? Are you related?' And I'm like, 'No, this isn't … this is my partner, this is my, this is my fiancé."
She said she heard nurses in the background cheering for them.
"I started crying," she said. "I had all this news and no one to tell. It was quite an emotional roller-coaster."
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