He hoped to donate a kidney. Now he’s headed for chemotherapy.
Unable to fulfill his own act of generosity, Ed Suslovic of Portland now searches for someone who can.
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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Ed Suslovic was supposed to donate one of his kidneys to his friend John Thompson, and both would live happy, healthy lives through their 60s and beyond.
But fate had other ideas.
“I feel like Lou Gehrig – I’m the luckiest man alive,” said Suslovic, 61, a former Portland mayor, city councilor and state representative.
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To appreciate the man’s irrepressible optimism, you should know that he was talking about his recent cancer diagnosis.