A husband celebrating his 23rd wedding anniversary gave his wife a lifesaving gift: a kidney.

With it, Cesar Calle also gave his wife, Monica, a life free of painful dialysis treatment, which she needed for the polycystic kidney disease she had been fighting for a decade, the Sun Sentinel reported.

The couple (shown above) spoke about the five-hour surgery during a press conference from Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, where the surgery was performed on February 19.

“I feel like a million dollars,” Monica Calle said three weeks after the transplant.

“And I think I look like a million bucks, compared to before.”

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A Memorial Regional Hospital employee who schedules patients’ surgeries there, she described her three-year journey.

“I was in a lot of pain. I was scared,” she said, “and I didn’t know if there was gonna be a miracle for me.”

She added, “I’m sure a lot of us that are in this situation always wonder, ‘When is our miracle happening?’ And I tell everybody, ‘Just hang on tight, fight your fight, because we are warriors, and your miracle will happen.'”

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Selflessly, her husband, Cesar, offered to donate one of his kidneys to his wife, and in December the couple got word that Cesar was a match.

Dr. Juan Arenas, a surgeon and chief of the hospital’s Memorial Transplant Institute, said, “To find a match between spouses is very unusual but very lucky for us to be able to find that.”

According to the Sun Sentinel, Cesar said, “For me to do this, it was big. I was shocked. [I thought], ‘It’s not real, this is not happening.'”

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As she celebrates her wedding anniversary, Monica reflected, “Little did we know 23 years ago that this was going to be the angel to save my life.”

The 39-year-old said, “I felt like I just won the lottery. I started dreaming of what my future would look like, not having to do dialysis. The fact that I can actually travel now and not worry about carrying boxes with me or supplies, or worry if it’s gonna get lost. I felt so free.”

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