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.
If she’d be 100 by now then the kidney is too. She was 52 at transplantation in 1978.
a kidney being 100 is nothing new as people age over 100 regularly. I guess its some combination of bio age, transplantation age which marks the record?
That is not 100 years! What the fuck is this title?
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.
64 year old man with a 100 year old kidney
His mom was probably 30 or 40 years old when she donated her kidney. And now he’s 60 to 70. So that’s where the 100 years comes from.
If she’d be 100 by now then the kidney is too. She was 52 at transplantation in 1978.
a kidney being 100 is nothing new as people age over 100 regularly. I guess its some combination of bio age, transplantation age which marks the record?
Right. She was 52 when she donated it to her son and it’s been 48 years since the transplant date.