Donor In Historic Hand Transplant Revealed

WMUR New Hampshire 9

BOSTON -- A New Hampshire woman who made the heartbreaking decision to donate her husband's hands and other organs, is identifying him publicly for the first time, four months after his hands were successfully transplanted onto Richard Mangino, 65, of Revere.

The October operation at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital was the first successful double hand transplant ever done in New England.

Mangino, a married father of three grown sons and grandfather to two boys, lost all four limbs a decade earlier when sepsis, a dangerous infection, ravaged his body. The sepsis was the result of a misdiagnosed kidney stone.

Mangino's story has been widely reported, but the donor's widow, Jodi Lloyd, has not spoken publicly until now.
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