NEW ORLEANS – 15-year-old Jason Lahatte has a new kidney. He had a life-saving transplant at Children’s Hospital – the donation coming from by an anonymous family in the midst of an excruciating loss.
“You feel great,” said Jason’s father, Joe Lahatte. “But, you also feel sad because you think about what they’re going through because they had to bury their child, but my son lives.”
16-year-old April Patterson is alive and well after she received a kidney from the same donor, on the same day as Jason.
“Fortunately the kidneys came and we were able to split the kidney between Jason and April,” said Dr. Oluwatoyin Bamgbola, a pediatric nephrologist with LSU Health Sciences Center.
June 3, 2012 was their independence day as they no longer had to be dependent on a dialysis machine.
“This kidney gives me a chance to do a lot of stuff I’ve always wanted to do,” said Patterson. “(It allows me) to travel, to go to college. It gave me life.”
“I want to be a doctor,” said Lahatte. “I just want to help people like I got helped.”
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