A New Jersey man is due for a kidney transplant from his daughter almost 40 years after experiencing the first such procedure, so he is expected to receive a fourth organ donation.
Leon Szewsek (73) of North Caldwell, New Jersey, received two heart and kidney transplants that first ticker swaps came in the 1980s. ABC7 reported.
The two fathers now need new kidneys and suffered on a long transplant wait list of 92,000 people for five years before they knew that their daughter was a perfect donor match, the report says.
“It's incredible. Her father told ABC7. “I'm just worried, but after this I want to make sure she's OK, but it's my second chance in life.”
“It wasn't luck, it was God who did it,” the 73-year-old said. NJ.com,
Her 46-year-old daughter, Jennifer Sevsik, knew that she would experience empathy as soon as it turned out to be a match with her father.
“You know, I can live the rest of my life with one kidney. If I decided not to and my dad passed away, I would never have forgiven myself,” she told ABC7.
Szewcyk is grateful for his latest new lease and hopes others will experience life-saving generosity derived from some of his organ replacements.
“You can see your grandchildren being born, and your children are married, Leon told ABC7.
According to the outlet, the elderly man had his first heart transplant at the age of 31.
That same degrading side effect is why he needs another kidney.
New kidney replacement procedures will be held this spring, according to NJ.com.
