Silvia Fernandez and Ortiz Fernandez

Fernandez: Fernandez says some might think she selfish for giving her husband her kidney now, given the surgeries' impact on her kids, according to Hamilton Spectator. But she believes it would actually be selfish to wait because her kids need a healthy dad now. But the 35-year-old health is deteriorating — he tired and he had to increase dialysis. "I can see him deteriorating more than he can see it himself," said his wife Silvia Fernandez, 33, sitting in their small Burlington apartment, their daughter Olivia — who will turn three in September — happily playing, and 10-month-old Mateo sleeping upstairs. If Ortiz health deteriorates further, he might be too sick to qualify for a transplant. Ortiz and Fernandez came to Canada from Peru in July 2009 on scholarships to study at Niagara College. Spectator readers met the Ortiz family last October in a story about how Grimaldo focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is threatening his immigration status. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.