True Love: Wife Gives Husband Kidney On Valentine's Day
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Thomas and Kim Duncan made a hospital room more loving than a romantic hotel on Valentine's Day.
Instead of sexy underwear, they put on matching hospital gowns Thursday morning at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Kim gave her husband of 25 years a kidney. The Jackson, Tenn., couple said they are blessed because she is a transplant match.
"What better day to show God's love as much as our love?" Kim Duncan said before they were wheeled back to the operating room.
Thomas Duncan considers himself to be a lucky man. Besides having a beautiful
wife willing to give him one of her kidneys, he has twice before received the gift of this vital organ. He asked people who have not signed up to be organ donors to do so this Valentine's Day and share the love.
"I've been on both sides of the fence," he said. "I've been on a dialysis machine three days a week, knowing that's what I had to do to sustain life. It is a life, but it's just a way of sustaining life. It's not really an enjoyable, self-fulfilled life. A kidney transplant opens everything totally back up to where you can go back to being 90 percent of the person you were before all of it happened."
By Thursday afternoon, both were out of the operating room and doing well, said Jessica Pasley, an information officer with Vanderbilt hospital.
Instead of sexy underwear, they put on matching hospital gowns Thursday morning at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Kim gave her husband of 25 years a kidney. The Jackson, Tenn., couple said they are blessed because she is a transplant match.
"What better day to show God's love as much as our love?" Kim Duncan said before they were wheeled back to the operating room.
Thomas Duncan considers himself to be a lucky man. Besides having a beautiful
wife willing to give him one of her kidneys, he has twice before received the gift of this vital organ. He asked people who have not signed up to be organ donors to do so this Valentine's Day and share the love. "I've been on both sides of the fence," he said. "I've been on a dialysis machine three days a week, knowing that's what I had to do to sustain life. It is a life, but it's just a way of sustaining life. It's not really an enjoyable, self-fulfilled life. A kidney transplant opens everything totally back up to where you can go back to being 90 percent of the person you were before all of it happened."
By Thursday afternoon, both were out of the operating room and doing well, said Jessica Pasley, an information officer with Vanderbilt hospital.
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