Twenty days ago, Gwen Green watched as Erlanger hospital nurses pushed her husband, Paul, into one operating room, and her son, Charles, into the other. Paul, beloved across the city for his long and fruitful work with Hope for the Inner City, has been suffering from an autoimmune disease called end-stage renal failure.
His kidneys were dying.
He needed a transplant.
Months ago, quietly and secretly, their son Charles, a gradue of McCallie School, Albion College and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, had gone for testing in Chicago, where he lives and works.
He was a perfect donor match.