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Jackyenjoyphotography via Getty Images(MISSOURI) For over nine months, Delayne Ivanowski of Kirkwood, Missouri, kept a secret from her dad that ended up saving his life. Delayne Ivanowski, a 25-year-old nurse at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, donated her kidney to her dad John Ivanowski, who told his daughter for months that he did not want her to be his donor. "I told her, I m not taking your kidney, " John Ivanowski, 60, told ABC News. "I told her that flat out." John Ivanowski was diagnosed two years ago with IgA nephropathy, a type of kidney disease that can lead to kidney failure, according to the National Institutes of Health . The disease ultimately led John Ivanowski to be on dialysis for four to five hours, four days a week, a quality of life that his daughter said was not right for him. "He likes to walk my dog and run with my dog and he wants to do all this stuff, but now he s hooked up to a machine," she told ABC News. "I don t think

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