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A KIDNEY TURNS 100
Betty Vetuskey offered her son a kidney. Ray Vetuskey does not think she gave it two thoughts.
He was a teenager when his kidneys stopped working. Doctors put him on dialysis. Betty was 52. “She’s right by my side, all the time,” Ray says of her now.
The surgery was in March 1978 at Strong Hospital. Ray was 16. He still has the calendar from that month. The surgery date is circled. So is the date of a Genesis concert.
On surgery day, mother and son lay on gurneys, holding hands. Betty was crying. The transplant was a…
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