. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. 14 months ago linda deming was more than one of 100,000 people on the kidney transplant list. unwilling to wait she took matters into her own hands and at this very moment she's going a healthy kidney who until last night she mefr met. for over a year linda deming has hated her routine. before dawn and drives 20 mijtss to a dialysis center. it's a four-hour process and it leaves her exhausted. on monday as she left the center one last time the 63-year-old relief. hours later she met her donor for the first time in person. deming searched 14 mornlts ago functioning. >> it crashed rail bad. with don't know why all of a sudden they changed so much, but they did. dialysis. >> doctors told dem sheg needed a kidney transplant to survive. >> we asked our friends, our families, and we got six people to step forward to be tested. none of them tested well. >> she was put on a transplant list but was determined to find a living donor on her own, printed posters, even making buttons asking potential volunteers to get tested but it was a facebook page called