KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - The alarm was set before sunrise, just like every other dialysis day. At 3:53 in the morning on October 14, Shyreka Wallace routinely scrolled Facebook before her appointment.

Then she saw it — a post that would change everything.

“She posted on Facebook looking for someone who needed a new organ,” Wallace recalls.

For 25 years, Wallace has lived with lupus, a disease that causes her body to attack itself. The Killeen woman knows pain intimately — the kind that can make walking nearly impossible and cause weight fluctuations from steroids. It’s the constant sickness that comes with fighting an invisible enemy.

“It’s painful at times. Sometimes you can hardly walk. You stay sick a lot. Your weight goes up and down because of the steroids you’re on,” she said.

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