Coworkers donate their kidneys to each other's husband after finding out they were matches during a chat in the bathroom By: CNN By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) -- When longtime coworkers Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis passed by each other at work, they would smile politely and say hello, oblivious to the fact that they'd one day team up to save their husbands' lives. Both men were suffering from kidney disease and in desperate need of transplants. The women, who worked together in the IT department at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta for 10 years, didn't know about their shared struggle. But after finding out in 2019, they quickly became friends and confidants, sharing the good and the bad that came with their emotional journeys.