I received this today from a double organ recipient in Brazil. This is an amazing story that needs to be told:
“Att Harry Kiernan,
Dear Harry,
This transplant was the first one in the world. I, SIDNEI MOURA NEHME, received a kidney and 65% liver right lobe transplant from a living donor, my son FABIO SILVA NEHME.
The day was October, 8th, 1998, at Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo City, Brasil.
At that time I was 53 years older and FABIO 25 years.
Now, I am 66 years older and Fabio is 39 years.
Fabio lives in Houston, Texas. He studied at John Hopkins (SAIS), Washington, DC, and IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. He is Americas’ Director in the biggest french company EDF Eletricité De France, and before he was Officer in the Worldbank, Washington, DC and I am a exchange broker.”
A dual living organ transplant from the SAME DONOR, during the SAME SURGERY!
That is truly amazing!
I was very happy to know both recipient and donor are doing very well.
The more stories people hear of living organ donations, the more common they might become.
There are so many misunderstandings and just plain untruths about being a donor.
Their story will help in educating people on how they can help to save a life.
Hi Harry, I was surfing donor info as I do from time to time, and came across this story. WOW…that’s incredible!
My name is Pattie Corder…I am a 2 time living related organ donor as well. April 24, 2000, I donated 60% of my liver to my mother at the University of Cincinnati, OH, and October 24, 2007, I donated my left kidney to a coworker and friend. At the time of my last donation, doctors at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY, could find no evidence that anyone had been a 2 time living related organ donor. Something else we have in common…it looks like he was an officer in Worldbank…I am also an officer of a community financial institution in Kentucky.
I have had the blessing of being interviewed to promote organ donor awareness locally and on the state level and I am also a donor on my drivers license.
Thanks for doing what you do…lives are being saved!
God bless!
Pattie
I guess I forgot to mention…I was 41 years old at the time of the liver donation and 48 years of age at the time of the kidney donation.
My mother, who was 60 at the time of the transplant is now 72 and doing very well.
My coworker and friend was able to enjoy his 40th birthday the year after that transplant…something he thought he would never see. God is good!