Kevin Gray is looking for a kidney - from the side of of the highway.
"People are panhandling for money and he's panhandling for a kidney," Dawn-Marie Gray, 41, of Newberg, Ore., told Good Morning America of her husband's mission.
It was May of last year when Gray, 35, found out that his kidneys were in a bad shape. The father of three girls - ages 2, 12 and 17 - was informed a year ago that he needed a transplant.
"We thought on almost every level I was going to be a match, but I have horseshoe kidneys," his wife shared. "They're connected at the bottom so there's no way they could disconnect them to share them with anybody else."
After they find out that Dawn-Marie could not donate her kidneys, Kevin took it upon himself to find other means by soliciting donors from the side of the road.
Whenever he can, Gray stands near Highway 99W in his hometown with a sign in hand that reads, "Living kidney donor needed." The sign points people to the "Are You My Type" Facebook page that a family friend, Michelle Saddoris, who is also in search of a new kidney, created to raise awareness and provide education about the journey of kidney failure, transplant and dialysis.
"He can't stand out there all day. He gets tired. It's a hit or miss, but he'll stand out there as often as he feels that he can," Dawn-Marie said.
Gray is an A so he can receive either an A or an O as a donor, she notes.
"Everybody please just sign up to be a living donor," Dawn-Marie pleads. "That's what this is all about. If you can't be Kevin's donor, be Michelle's donor. And if you can't be her donor, be somebody's donor."
