ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Webster man is celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney his mom donated to him as a teenager. In March 1978, surgeons at Strong Hospital transplanted a kidney into 16-year-old Ray Vetuskey. The story behind that kidney is now one for the record books. Vetuskey grew up in Seabreeze as the youngest […]
She was 52 years old when she donated a kidney to him. It’s been 48 years since the transplant, he’s still alive, and the organ has not failed. He hasn’t been alive 100 years but that kidney has been.
She was 52 years old when she donated a kidney to him. It’s been 48 years since the transplant, he’s still alive, and the organ has not failed. He hasn’t been alive 100 years but that kidney has been.