Today Suarez is a veteran of not one but multiple transplants. Complications from streptococcal infections led to her first kidney transplant in 1988 and a second transplant two years later when her body rejected the first. The latest transplant came in 1996 after rejection of the second kidney. Suarez's story is unusual in that two of her three kidneys were given by members of her immediate family. I come from a family of 13, so there were plenty of possible living donors.
Few people get that kind of opportunity.
Back To Top Matthew Nery, Aurora, blood recipient. After suffering a snowboarding accident that claimed one of his kidneys, Matthew received a critically needed blood transfusion.