A California surgeon says that in the nearly 2,000 transplants he has performed, he has never given two new kidneys to two siblings in less than a day.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two California siblings got the kidney transplants they so desperately needed, and each got those new kidneys within 24 hours of one another. Their surgeon saying this was the first time in his more than two decades of work that he performed separate transplant surgeries on siblings like that.
After two years of dialysis treatment every other day, a kidney was now being offered to Carswell at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco. "He said, 'What's going on? Are you in pain? Is something wrong?' I go, I just got a kidney offer and I think we had the same look of, 'Oh my God.' It was definitely like an hour and a half of celebration like 'oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,'" said Carswell.
In fact, Carswell was still recovering from their transplant when things began moving quickly for Matthew.
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