31May/19

‘Why not me?’ Man, 84, becomes nation’s oldest living kidney donor – TODAY

‘Why not me?’ Man, 84, becomes nation’s oldest living kidney donor  TODAY

Frank Dewhurst knew his neighbor was in desperate need for a kidney. They’d lived in the same townhouse community for 20 years and he kept seeing Linda Nall’s signs pleading for a donor — first placed in the back window of a car, then recently in her front yard. She was looking for someone with type O blood, and he was a match. “I was walking in the neighborhood one day and I just said, why not me?” Dewhurst, 84, who lives in Austin, Texas, told TODAY. “I just called her up and said, ‘I’d like to come up and visit with you’… she thought I was coming up there because I’m very involved in our…