GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — There are just 6,500 organ donations from living donors each year in the United States. A Guilford County paramedic is now among them.
Senior Paramedic Alexis Williams joined a site called The Great Social Experiment and saw a post that made her stop scrolling.
It was from a young woman named Shamarya Johnson who said she was fighting for her life and in desperate need of a kidney transplant, and there was something else that called to her to make a profound sacrifice for a stranger.
“She went into kidney failure when she was pregnant, and she delivered at 30 weeks … She lost her baby two months later,” Williams said.
Born premature, Shamarya Johnson’s baby boy Amari didn’t survive complications. It’s a story she shared on The Great Social Experiment that reached Williams.
“In 2022, I lost my ability to ever have kids. I had a total hysterectomy, and I knew if I did this, it would give her the ability to conceive,” Williams said.
Williams filled out the required forms and took the required medical tests at East Carolina University to see if she was a match.