"There are better odds of getting struck by lightning,” Van Loenen said. "A random taxi driver offering to give me his kidney and all these pieces match.”
Chappell, who has been driving Van Loenen to dialysis appointments, shocked the Gilbert, Ariz., woman a month ago by offering to donate his kidney.
"He calls me all excited. If we were a closer match, we would’ve been siblings. I was ready to fall off the floor,” Van Loenen said.
The Phoenix taxi driver said he was a man of faith and that a higher power wanted him to step in.
"By then, me and the good Lord already had a talk,” Chappell said.
Last year, Van Loenen, 63, was diagnosed with a kidney disease.
In February, she received her cousin’s kidney but that transplant failed. One day, Van Loenen found herself telling Chappell, 56, that her son was going to get tested.
"I said ‘Rita, your son’s a whole lot younger than me. I’m gonna go down and go through the process and see if it will work.’ I don’t think she really believed I was going to.”
The transplant has not been scheduled yet.
... Maybe she likes the aggressive type.. 
