Wife Gives Husband Best Valentine’s Day Gift Ever: Her Kidney

While most women will sit in anticipation of what their husbands and boyfriends will get them for Valentine’s Day, one woman in Lake Mary, Fla., will give her husband a gift that cannot be found on any retail store shelf or “Best Valentine’s Day Gifts” web post: her kidney.

News 13 in Orlando reports that Melissa Degesso-Jones‘ husband, James Jones, has been suffering from renal failure for a while. When he was told that he needed a kidney transplant, his wife immediately volunteered to see if she was a match.

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“There wasn’t any reservation, or never did I ever fathom the idea I wouldn’t be,” said Melissa. “That’s the funny part. I never thought, ‘Oh, what if I don’t match?’ I just assumed I would.”

Her assumption was right. She was a match.

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So this Monday, just days before Valentine’s Day, Melissa will have her kidney transplanted to James. The couple met on Valentine’s Day, just two years earlier.

Even the doctor performing the operation is touched by the sacrifice and symbolism behind Melissa’s kind act.