Aussie radio host shares huge update on husband’s kidney match after on-air plea
Breakfast radio host Emma Chow has shared a heart-warming update after revealing her husband Enzo is in urgent need of a live donor transplant.
Chow, 41, confirmed her husband of 11 years is battling chronic kidney disease during an emotional on-air update in August, on her own show 2DayFM Breakfast with Nath & Emma. The couple can now reveal that Emma is a donor match and is offering her own kidney to her husband.
2DayFM breakfast host Emma Chow reveals she’s a donor match for her husband Enzo. Instagram/@emmaechow
“The results are in 🫀,” the pair captioned a video announcement shared to Instagram on Tuesday.
“We have some news. Just come out of the appointment, and we opened up our, I guess like our transplant app, which is like Tinder, and Emma’s one went right,” husband Enzo began.
“We’re a match!” screamed Emma in excitement.
“And I went right, we’re a match,” Enzo confirmed, referring to the dating app’s ‘swipe right’ function on matches. “Her kidney swiped right, we’re a match.”
During her emotional on-air plea in August, Emma, of ‘Mike E & Emma’ fame, revealed she hoped to be a donor for her husband.
The couple were waiting for the rest results to see if Emma was a match, and were now ecstatic to share the news.
“Doctor said it was the most boring case ever because my kidneys are functioning very, very well,” Emma went on. “Hopefully, we’ll have a surgery date soon before the end of the year.”
Emma and Enzo are parents to two young boys. Instagram/@emmaechow
Emma and Enzo thanked everyone for the outpour of well-wishes and “words of encouragement” they’ve received.
“We said we would keep you updated ... when he told us [the news] I was like pins and needles all here,” said Emma as she put her hands across her chest. “All down my arms, all through my fingers.”
“We needed a bucket for her tears,” Enzo laughed. “But everything’s good, on the right track.”
The couple said they’re “so, so happy” about the result and next step in Enzo’s journey.
“We’re going to be OK,” Emma smiled.
Emma, with her two sons, said things will “be OK”. Instagram/@emmaechow
Emma first opened up about her husband’s battle during a live broadcast of her show 2DayFM Breakfast with Nath & Emma in August.
She spoke bravely of “trying to save” her husband’s life by being his kidney donor.
“It’s the first time that I might finally be able to physically help him after years of feeling like all I could do was watch him suffer,” she said, holding back tears.
The radio host opened up about the challenging journey with fans on air. Instagram/@2dayfmbreakfast
“But I also have to prepare for the news that I’m not a match, and I have to be OK with that.”
The host shares two young sons, Valentino and Raphael, with her husband and admitted “some days feel a lot harder to push through”.
She spoke of the heartache that comes with “processing” the difficult parts of life while trying to continue with work and the everyday.
She hoped listeners would know they are not alone in their own personal challenges, health related or not.
