Kuala Lumpur, February 1: Flowers,
chocolates, jewels might be the most popular gifts for those
in love, but for How Kok Leong all the love from his wife came
laden a kidney.
The 39-year-old man from Malaysia was down with a kidney
failure and had been undergoing the dreaded dialysis treatment
for quite sometime. His wife Ngui Fui Lang decided to help her
ailing husband by donating her own kidney to keep him
going.
“I did not expect her to give me one of her kidneys. Her
donation is even better than striking a lottery!” said How,
who has given up driving lorries to do odd jobs now.
Ngui’s gesture definitely outshines all those people who
take pride in flaunting tattoos of their lover’s name etched
on the body. A few drops of blood and voluntarily bearing pain
seems a lot easier than giving someone a crucial organ of your
own system.
The operation was carried out at University Malaya Medical
Centre (UMMC), in February last year, on the sixth day of
Chinese New Year.
Her father discouraged Nui, but she remained adamant and
almost a year later, she says she has never regretted giving
her kidney to her husband.
“I do not sense any difference after the transplant,” said
Ngui, 30.
The only motivation for her in taking such a bold step was
her love for How. “I was not scared,” she said. “He went
through dialysis three times a week and he was so weak then. I
did not want to see my husband suffer.”
Ngui, from Pontianak, Indonesia moved to Malaysia and
married How in February 2005, following a one-month courtship.
The two had met through a matchmaker.
Besides her kidney, Ngui also had another very special gift
for her husband – their son Jun Shen, who was born in October
2006, only three months before his diabetic father was
diagnosed with a kidney failure.
Originally published in MedGuru.com
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