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More on the Loyola U. Med Center live altruistic kidney donor program. |
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Montgomery Patch: Blakemore, 58, lives in the Seasons Ridge subdivision of Montgomery, and she’s worked at Loyola for 30 years. She manages the hospital’s clinical laboratory department. She seems quiet and unassuming—not the type of person you’d immediately cast as a hero. But to Memerto Asuncion, 47, of Cornell, N.Y., she undoubtedly is. Last September, Blakemore donated one of her kidneys to Asuncion, a complete stranger, through Loyola’s program, which sends donor organs across the country to those needing transplants in other hospital systems.
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