Lisa Schumacher knew nothing about Pam Cassidy when she decided to donate a kidney to her.
Schumacher is a labor and delivery nurse at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. In February, she walked into a room where Dr. Brett Cassidy was talking to two nurses about his wife's kidney, which was failing. She was in desperate need of a transplant, he said, and then and there, Schumacher announced she'd be the person to help. "I wanted to do it," Schumacher told The Courier-News. "It was a time in my life to do something for somebody."
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