Police Chief Mark Saunders to receive kidney from wife on Monday
Toronto’s police chief will receive the gift of life from his very own wife.
Since being diagnosed with kidney disease, Mark Saunders has revealed to CTV News Toronto that he will receive a transplant from his wife Stacey next week.
“The stars aligned for me,” he said, seated next to his wife in their west-end home on Friday.
“I’m one of the fortunate ones.”
Sometime in the late 90s, Saunders discovered he had been living with one kidney his whole life.
The singular kidney was never a result of a “lifestyle issue,” he said, but merely something he was born with.
“Later on, it turned out that the other kidney had kidney disease,” he said.
“It wasn’t discovered through anything symptomatic, it was me going in and getting blood work done (and) the earmarking’s of the disease were discovered.”
While one healthy kidney is all the body needs to function, an ailing second kidney can quickly become a life or death situation.
