It took COVID-19, an unexpected layoff, an hour of daytime television, a laser-focused nonprofit leader and a priest’s encouragement — plus more than a year of testing and delays — for Sheila Devaney’s left kidney to be transplanted into Ron Kishun.
To say it was a dizzying set of circumstances that brought these two New Jerseyans together is an understatement. But it culminated in a pair of successful surgeries last spring that saved Kishun’s life.