Six months after going public with the information that he was in kidney failure, longtime Columbus Blue Jackets reporter Aaron Portzline is set to receive a kidney transplant thanks to a Blue Jackets employee.
According to WOSU 89.7's Allie Vugrincic, Blue Jackets communications specialist Lindy Noel said she was "inspired" to see if she was a match for Portzline after he announced his diagnosis in October, and it was determined in March that she was.
Portzline, who has covered the Blue Jackets since their inception first for the Columbus Dispatch and now for The Athletic, has polycystic kidney disease, which runs in his family.