A Turkish woman's life has been saved after she received a kidney from her husband's mistress. Four years after getting married, one of Meliha Avc?'s kidneys ceased to work, meaning she needed to receive dialysis three times a week, four hours at a time.

During this time, Avc?'s husband, Mehmet Avc?, met another woman, Ay?e ?mdat. The husband moved ?mdat into his mother's home, disguising her as the babysitter for the couple's son. When Meliha Avc? learned about her husband's adultery, she pleaded that he and ?mdat marry after she died.

After the three came from the Central Anatolian province of Nev?ehir to Istanbul for surgery, ?mdat insisted that she donate a kidney to save Avc?. “We shared a husband, and now we shared a kidney,” said the patient. ?mdat promised to continue taking care of Meliha Avc? after the surgery.