Residents doing well after kidney transplant surgery

Paul Lucuk and Kristie Kennedy

Happy to report that I learned from Melissa Cook, a teacher at John G. Prendergast Elementary School in Ansonia, that her brother-in-law Paul Lucuk is doing well after surgery Thursday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. 
Lucuk, 51, of Ansonia suffers from Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, and needed a kidney to survive.
His friend Kristie Kennedy, 40, of Derby, a longtime Ansonia Hilltop neighbor, gave him one of her kidneys.

Cook said both of them were doing well today. Such wonderful news to be able to share!