Limo Driver Gets Priceless Tip - A Kidney

As tips go, Chicago limousine driver Abdul Faraj got a priceless one this week when one of his regular customers offered up his kidney.

Minnesota businessman Dave Baker had used Faraj as his driver on trips to Chicago for several years. But while making small talk months ago, Baker learned of Faraj's poor health and struggle to find a kidney donor with a matching blood type.

"At that time, he tells me, 'What's your blood type?' I tell him O-positive," Faraj said. "He said, 'I'm 0-positive. I'll give you one.'"

"He gave me part of his body. He saved my life", Faraj, a diabetes sufferer whose kidneys were failing despite a three-times-a-week dialysis regime said.

Both underwent transplant surgeries at a Chicago hospital. "This was an opportunity to stop, slow down, take a look around and try to help someone", Baker said in an interview.

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