JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WAVE) - A stranger’s help is creating a multitude of offers for a Jeffersonville man who needs a kidney transplant.
Marcus Edwards is on dialysis while he waits.
Edwards and his wife were able to travel to Chicago and take in a Bears game at Soldier Field against the Detroit Lions on Nov. 10.
When they got there, Edwards decided to make a homemade sign to hold up. He wrote, “I need a Kidney” with his blood type and his phone number on the sign.
“I thought if I held this sign up and one person saw this sign and came across and was a match, that’s what I needed,” Edwards told NBC affiliate WAVE3.
A woman sitting next to them at the game, Jessica Jenkins, saw the sign and said she wanted to help.
“She said, ‘I want to take your picture, and I want to make this go viral... I want you to find a kidney. You’re going to find a kidney,’” Edwards recalled. “And she took that picture, and man, it started rolling, and it snowballed.”
Edwards is now getting phone calls from strangers around the world, but hasn't found a match yet.
Jenkins also set up a GoFundMe account with a goal to raise $25,000.
“Through all of this now I can say those tickets went from astronomical to absolutely priceless," Edwards said.
