Shawn Moyer could have never predicted Elena Hershey would be his date a little more than a week before their prom 35 years ago, much less the person who would later donate the life saving kidney that he badly needed. But both of those things turned out to be true.
Shawn Moyer, now Dr. Shawn Moyer, was voted most likely to succeed in his senior class, where he was also student council president. But that wasn’t enough to stop the girl who was supposed to go with him to prom to leave him for a better offer.
He needed a date and Elena was available. They had both said they had a fine time and then they went off to college and lost touch.
Fast forward to now when Elena heard from her good friend that Shawn needed a kidney. As it happened, she had already decided she would donate a kidney anonymously to a stranger in need.
But what Elena wants everyone to know is, even if what she did was indeed “remarkable” by most people’s standards, the surgery and aftermath were rather unremarkable, in a good way.