Jessica Marquez Shares the Story Behind Her Husband’s Life-Saving Kidney

Greta Wire · May 19, 2026 · 31m

This episode tells the deeply personal story of Greta’s producer, Jessica Marquez, whose husband spent nearly five years on nightly dialysis while waiting for a kidney transplant. Jessica describes the exhausting reality of structuring family life around his treatment, raising a young child during that period, and living with the uncertainty of whether a transplant would ever come. When the long-awaited call finally arrives in September 2024, the relief is immediate but cautious, shaped by earlier false alarms and the fear that something could still go wrong.

The story then opens into…