Football is more than a passion for Frank Romano, a former Derby High School linebacker.
It may have extended his life.
Romano, 59, had renal failure, and required dialysis three times a week. But a college football connection resulted in a kidney transplant on July 17.
Now Romano is recovering from surgery, and giving credit to the “football brotherhood.”
The kidney came by way of Dr. Mark Sobel, a fellow University of Maryland alumnus whose son died of a heart infection in July.
Although Romano and Sobel attended the University of Maryland at different times, they both had played football at the school, and struck up a friendship at alumni events.
“Football is a brotherhood kind of thing,” Romano said Wednesday morning. “You always kind of bond.”
Read more, learn about Frank's donor - Mark Sobel Jr. : http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/football_brotherhood_leads_to_new_kidney_for_derby_man
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