March 14, 2011
Calipatria C/O donates kidney to Lancaster Officer he never met!
After three years of dialysis and the possibility of death lurking in the shadows for Gaston Benjamin, a state correctional officer in Lancaster, a new lease on life was granted to him through the donation of a kidney by a fellow officer.
“It was emotional. I couldn’t help myself,” Benjamin said of his first meeting on Feb. 28 with his kidney donor, Luis Hernandez, a Calipatria State Prison correctional officer and Imperial Valley resident.
“I kept thinking to myself, ‘Is this a dream? Am I going to wake up in the same position again later?’” Benjamin said. “No, it was not a dream; it was reality.”
Benjamin was diagnosed with low-functioning kidneys in 2004 after a routine checkup...
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