Valentine's Day Kidney Donation: Amy Anderson Gives Fiance Ron Spanier Life-Saving Organ

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Not flowers and hearts, but a kidney: A Minnesota man will get a Valentine's Day gift of a lifetime.

Ron Spanier and fiance Amy Anderson are preparing for the kidney donation Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview.

Spanier's been on dialysis since last summer after a disease caused cysts in his kidneys. The two have a 3-month-old son. Spanier jokes that since Anderson gave him his first-born and a kidney, he figured he'd marry her.

Anderson tells the St. Cloud Times she understands the stress of medical problems. Her first husband died of a stroke. Anderson has two children from that marriage, a 10-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son. Spanier and Anderson will plan their wedding after they heal from the surgery.

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The St. Cloud Times report can be found at: http://bit.ly/fWKwc4

Comments

[Rolanda Ridley]

06:10 PM on 02/15/2011

What a display of love. Please consider donating a kidney to someone in need, it will make all the difference in their lives. To be a kidney donor you must be in supreme good health, a work up to be a kidney donor is the ultimate health check-up.

[Max Shaw]

05:03 PM on 02/14/2011

"Spanier jokes that since Anderson gave him his first-born and a kidney, he figured he'd marry her.."

He figures? So if it werent for maybe one of those two things he might not have wanted to marry her? It seems he might have had other ideas for their future...lol.

[shthar]

02:09 PM on 02/14/2011

Biiiiig mistake Ron.

You'll never win another argument.

Cuz she'll just wheel out 'oh yeah? who gave you that kidney?'