Airlines attendant gets kidney from her pilot

A flight attendant with chronic kidney disease will get a life-saving kidney transplant donation from her pilot.

Jenny Stansel, 38, has battled chronic kidney disease for nearly 15 years but after the Alaska Airlines stewardess had to stop working on one of her flights last March, she learned she desperately needed a transplant.

After Stansel publicly asked friends and co-workers to consider donating, Captain Jodi Harskamp stepped up and agreed to give her friend the life-saving organ.

Stansel and Harskamp, both based in Anchorage, Alaska, have traveled to Seattle for the five-hour surgery scheduled for March 13.

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