Victoria Ingram-Curlee has finally made good on her wedding promise to her husband, Randall.
In two 2 1/2-hour operations Wednesday, four doctors removed one of her kidneys and implanted it in Randall Curlee."The operations, both of them, were quite successful," said Dr. Robert Mendez. "Victoria gave a beautiful kidney to Randy, and after we were able to implant it and hook it up, it looked just beautiful, just as it did when it came out of her."
Husband and wife were recuperating Thursday in separate rooms at Sharp Memorial Hospital, where they were married Oct. 11. They should be able to go home as early as next week, doctors said.
Randall, whose kidneys were ruined by diabetes, isn't completely out of the woods - 15 percent of kidney transplants fail. But if his recovery is successful, he'll have more energy and be able to produce children, the doctors said.