Provo couple becomes 1,000th living donor kidney transplant at Intermountain

Deseret News | Carole Mikita

MURRAY — Described as history in the making, a cause for celebration, and a reason to give thanks, doctors at Intermountain Medical Center Monday announced their 1,000th living donor kidney transplant.

The news was that much sweeter because the 1,000th donor was Pam Sheppard who donated a kidney to her husband, Lee Sheppard.

“Believe me," the Provo man said. “We were a perfect match in marriage, now we are a perfect match again.”On Thanksgiving Day last year, Lee Sheppard ended up in the emergency room suffering from kidney failure. He had been diagnosed many years earlier with polycystic kidney disease, a hereditary condition that had killed his father and grandfather. He had lived with the disease for years with few symptoms until that day.

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