Man offers to trade truck for liver to save his dying wife
A California man has taken to Facebook to make a desperate plea to help save his dying wife.
Verlon Robinson, 55, offered to give away his pick-up truck and trailer to anyone who could donate a healthy section of liver that would save his wife. He even offered to throw in one of his kidneys to the deal.
Verlon’s wife, Marie, suffers from cirrhosis of the liver. She is on an organ transplant waiting list but Verlon says he is worried she won’t get a liver in time.
“To all that don’t know I have a very sick wife, with a non-reversible liver disease,” Verlon wrote in a post last week.
“I do have an 04 Dodge pick-up that I would gladly trade anyone,” he said. “Plus I could throw in a nice tent trailer.
“I would do anything to trade places with her but as you know that’s impossible. So please if you are O-positive or negative blood type and would consider giving her some of your liver we have insurance that would cover all surgeries.
“PS I have good kidneys and I would throw in one.”
Verlon had to later change his proposal after being told it was “against the rules to offer my material stuff”.
“Since most of you do not want my truck or trailer, it’s probably OK,” he quipped. “However they did say I could still offer my kidney. So kidney is still out there.”