Constable: Roller coaster year ends on a high note for both kidney recipient and donor After Robin Paolino, left, donated a kidney to Ally Hembd, the pair share a moment. "We're both a little beat up and wearing gowns, but we're so happy," Paolino says. courtesy of Robin Paolino
Since November 2018, Ally Hembd had been hoping for a donor kidney that would eliminate the need for her to do dialysis treatments for five hours a day, four days a week, in her home in Wheeling. Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer Robin Paolino of Aurora says she couldn't be happier about her decision to donate a kidney to stranger Ally Hembd of Wheeling.