A wait of 5 to 7 years was what doctors gave Stacy Hobson for a kidney from a deceased donor, after she had already spent 18 months on the transplant list. Then Jenny Joyner, a Memphis mother of three, saw a friend’s Facebook post about living kidney donation and began testing to give a kidney to someone she had never met. Her kidney went to Hobson, according to a report published by Upworthy.
Joyner said her husband set a drink down at dinner in a plastic cup bearing a transplant organization’s logo, which she had not noticed before, and the detail stayed with her as she thought about donating.
A friend’s post that started the testing
Joyner learned about living kidney donation from a Facebook post by a friend who knew someone in need of a kidney, Action News 5 in Memphis reported. Asked what led her to donate, Joyner credited “Facebook and God, to be honest.”
In May 2025, she began compatibility testing at the Methodist Transplant Institute, and it took weeks to finish. Joyner, who turned 45 that year, is an admissions counselor for the University of Mississippi’s DeSoto campus, a wife and a mother of three, and Upworthy describes the children as a high school senior, a middle child with Down syndrome and a 10-year-old…