How a Facebook post led a young police officer to donate her kidney to a US Navy vet
Nicole Gaborek was working a late shift one night in July, scrolling through Facebook during a slow period, when she turned to her partner on the Lakemoor police force.
"I said, 'Should I donate a kidney?' "
A Facebook friend had shared an article from Rockford radio station B-103 about a 31-year-old woman from Harvard, Ill., who was searching for a kidney donor. Gaborek has friends in Harvard. She also has type A blood - the same as the woman who needed a kidney. And an affinity for helping others, even if it means putting herself in harm's way.
"My partner just kind of ignored me,"
