Indie kept moving away from his mistress to reach an unknown sitting about 90 meters away. No one could imagine that insistence would change a life.
Lucy Humphrey lived for years with severe kidney failure linked to lupus and underwent dialysis. In 2019 she was told that, without a transplant, she could have had about five years of life ahead of her.
He needed a compatible kidney.
In 2021, Lucy was supposed to travel, but her health conditions forced her to give up. He spent his day at Cold Knap Beach, Wales, along with his dog Indie.
It was there that something unpredictable happened.
Indie began to reach a woman Lucy had never seen before. Her name was Katie James and she was sitting on the beach, working in crochet.
Lucy eventually approached to apologize for the behavior of the dog and invited Katie to share their barbecue.
A conversation born by chance soon took a surprising direction.
When Lucy told her about dialysis, Katie told her she had just registered as a potential kidney donor for anyone she needed.
The two women exchanged phone numbers.
Then the exams came.
Katie was compatible.
Lucy told that a surgeon would estimate in one out of 22 million the odds of meeting in that way a compatible person.
In October 2022, the transplant was successfully performed and for Lucy a new phase of life began.
For years he'd waited for someone who could offer you that chance. Yet the decisive meeting did not take place through a planned research, but during a day at the sea that, according to its programs, should not even spend there.
And above all he began thanks to Indie, who stubbornly continued to return to the unknown.
We cannot know whether the dog had perceived something special in Katie or whether it was an extraordinary concatenation of coincidences.
We only know that Lucy needed to meet a compatible person.
And that day Indie was the first to approach.