US Liver Donor Marries Organ Recipient

This unconventional love story started when Former Marine Officer Christopher Dempsey decided to be a liver donor to a stranger who he never thought would become his wife.

Heather Krueger was diagnosed with a stage 4 liver cancer and she had been sick for about 2 years. Doctors told her that she only had 50% chance of living more than two months.

Her family was under pressure to find the right donor. This was a difficult task in a country with more than 119,000 people on its waiting list for a transplant.

That is where code enforcement officer Mr. Dempsey entered, he was in the break room in Frankfort, a village south of Chicago, Illinois one day when he overheard a guy talking about this woman who needed a liver donor.

In his statement, he said, “I heard a co-worker talking about his cousin who needed a liver transplant.”

“I just thought to myself, I would want someone to help me or my family in that situation.” He added.

Mr. Dempsey {38 years old} went in for the test and discovered he was a match.
On February 2015, they talked for the first time. Dempsey called Krueger to inform her about the good news, that she finally had a donor.

In the same way, Krueger also wanted to tell him how she and her mother had cried to tears after receiving the good news.

He later then treated Ms. Krueger to lunch, and that was their first meeting.
Love grows

As time went by and surgery came closer, they started to spend more time together as Mr. Dempsey and his motorcycle club was going to hold a fundraiser to help her with her medical bills.

“We were going out looking for donations for a benefit, and I just started thinking, she’s a really nice girl, she is somebody I would like to get to know.” Mr. Dempsey said.

By the time of the surgery at the University Of Illinois Hospital on March 16, they had already been on a couple of dates. Nevertheless, they only made it official afterwards.

“I was really confident everything was going to be okay,” said Mr. Dempsey. “I was still nervous – there is always the chance [something might go wrong] – but at no point did I rethink the decision.

“It was just really good knowing she was going to be okay.”

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