High school friend in New York 'perfect match'
Facebook may be the greatest blessing Charles "Chuck" Ickes has had in his life.
The social networking Internet site allowed him to reconnect with a high school friend in New York who is donating a kidney to him for no other reason than she can.
"People ask me all the time, 'Why are you doing this?'" Sandi Dykstra McLean said Sunday by phone from East Rochester, N.Y. "The answer is 'Why not?' If you can help someone to live and see the result of it, then why wouldn't you do it?"
Ickes, a Navy veteran and a sheriff's deputy who worked for both Seminole County and Flagler County, had nothing but time on his hands after he was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2008 and went online.
"I thought it was just because of my job, but I was always feeling weak and tired. Then I started throwing up. It got so bad that I went to the emergency room. Now I've been on dialysis three times a week for the past four years," the Holly Hill resident said by phone Sunday from New York where he is visiting his father. "There wasn't a lot else I could do. I had a lot of free time."
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