Taylum Lamoureux to undergo kidney transplant
It's news Darren and Desiree Lamoureux have been waiting for — their son Taylum, will be getting a new kidney next month.
Taylum was born with Polycystic kidney disease and for the last two years, he's been waiting to get a transplant.
This means the family will be allowed to stay at Ronald McDonald House in Toronto. Earlier this year, there was uncertainty about the family's housing situation because the house is only intended for short term stays.
Desiree said a woman who the family didn't know reached out to them through social media, and said she was willing to donate a kidney to Taylum.
"It was an immediate feeling … just a gut instinct, like, I think this is the person we have to go with," she said.
"I kind of wanted to exhaust our options of people we knew beforehand, but something told me to go with this person."
The donor went through testing and was a match.
Taylum's transplant surgery is scheduled to take place May 13.