The Chicago Cubs fan, whose transplant surgery was put on hold for months due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, finally received her kidney last month from a White Sox fan who first spotted her plea on social media last year.
Kolls, 23, of Lombard, took a poster to a Cubs game in May 2019 that read, “This li’l Cubs fan needs a kidney,” and included a phone number she used just for the search.
Her donor, Thomas Alessio, 32, of Chicago, spotted the sign after the Cubs social media team took her photo and blasted it out on Twitter.