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KIDNEY EXCHANGE: A sudden urge to shopThursday, December 23, 2010 11:21 PM EST
By Susan Corica
Staff Writer
Meeting the man who received her donated kidney “was one of the most humbling and heartwarming experiences I’ve ever had in my life,” said Laura DiMauro.
“He said ‘You saved my life,’ I was joking with him that he might suddenly get the urge to start shopping for purses and shoes. I told him ‘if you want to we can meet at the mall.’”
“He’s a wonderful person, a beautiful man,” she said.
That man is Fred Dinkins, from New Haven. Suffering from kidney disease so severe his original kidneys had to be removed in 2008, he was on dialysis for 10 years and nine months before getting his new kidney, “I was big, and I had high blood pressure. I had a real good job but I had to let it go because I just wasn’t well,” he said. “I was at the point where I was getting tired of dialysis. I was going down somewhat, so that’s why they did the transplant.”
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