Last week, NBC7 first introduced you to Poway couple Mirna Irish and her husband, Jim, who needed a kidney; she turned out to be an extraordinary match.

When Jim met Mirna, he just knew she was a perfect match but found out only later that he also married his kidney match.

Surrounded by family Monday at Sharp Memorial Hospital, the couple is celebrating the successful lifesaving transplant, which took place on Friday.

“My outlook is right here: I have a one-in-a-million wife,“ Jim said.

Those odds turn out to be accurate.

“From a donation standpoint, this is one in a million,” Dr. Marquis Hart, a transplant surgeon at Sharp, told NBC 7. "They found each other later in life, then she turns out to be completely healthy, which is a requirement to be a donor. She matches him, and she has

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