Long-awaited kidney transplant a success By: Tyler Clarke
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After more than three years of delays and complications, Steve Hays finally has a new kidney.
In what he has been told was the first live donor transplant since level red restrictions came into play, Steve joined his wife, Lora, in going under the knife on Feb. 18.
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Steve and Lora Hay, at their home in Rapid City with their dogs, Cooper, Karma and Willow, early last year. Lora donated a kidney to her husband last month.
Lora donated a kidney to her husband, and said she wouldn’t have had it any other way.