KUALA LUMPUR,MALAYSIA: For How Kok Leong, the ultimate gesture of
love was one he experienced a year ago, when his wife gave him a
special gift - one of her kidneys.
How, 39, was suffering from kidney failure and had to go for
regular dialysis treatment until his wife Ngui Fui Lang, 30, donated
her right kidney to replace his failing left organ.
"I did not expect her to give me one of her kidneys. Her donation is
even better than striking a lottery!" said How, who stopped driving
lorries and does odd jobs now.
Ngui gave her husband the "gift" last February, on the sixth day
of Chinese New Year, in an operation carried out at Universiti
Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC).
Despite being admonished by her father, she has never regretted
giving her kidney to her husband.
"I do not sense any difference after the transplant," said
Ngui.
"I was not scared. I did not want to see my husband suffer."
"He went through dialysis three times a week and he was so weak
then," said Ngui, who married How, 39, in February 2005 after a
one-month courtship.
She had earlier spent six months undergoing tests, counselling,
and repeated inquiries about her decision.
Ngui, from Pontianak, Indonesia, came from a poor family.
She worked as a seamstress at the age of 14.
Five years ago, she came to Malaysia to seek a life partner.
Through a matchmaker, she met and married How.
She gave him another special gift in October 2006 when their baby
boy, Jun Shen, was born.
However, three months after the baby was born, How, a diabetic,
suffered kidney failure and started dialysis treatment.
He started to raise money for a transplant in China but a visit
to UMMC offered a solution when a nurse told him that spousal
transplant was possible and could be performed at the centre.
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