Lisa Post, of Madison, Ala., helps her daughter Anna press a button for pain medication as she recovers from a kidney transplant on Tuesday at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester. Photo: Joe Michaud-Scorza
Jeff Post was devastated when he was told he could not replace his daughter's failing kidney with one of his own. But thanks to the paired kidney donation program at the Mayo Clinic, he still was able to donate a kidney and save his 11-year old daughter's life.
The paired kidney donation program creates a chain that provides healthy organs to two people with failing kidneys.
On Dec. 23, Anna Post and 51-year-old Judy Thorson received new kidneys from complete strangers. Jeff Post, from Madison, Ala., donated a healthy kidney to Thorson. Thorson's cousin Shelby Courtney donated a healthy kidney to Anna Post. While Thorson, from Waterloo, Iowa, was receiving her new organ at Methodist Hospital, Courtney's kidney was being transplanted into Anna Post at Saint Marys.
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