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WATERBURY – Mr. Roger “Cowboy” M. Breton, age 62, passed away, surrounded by his family and his best friends on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, at Waterbury Hospital.
Roger, affectionately known as “Cowboy,” was born on May 28, 1959, in Waterbury, son of the late Roger and Noma “Pat” (Kennedy) Breton. Roger worked for the city of Waterbury in the park department for over 20 years. A kidney transplant recipient, Roger was a proud member of the Transplant Team of CT and traveled with the team to the Transplant Games where he also played on the volleyball team.
He loved trips to the casino and spending days at the beach with his best friends Kenny and Maria Miller. Happy and fun, Roger had a great sense of humor and was happiest spending time with his family and friends.
The year, 2007. The month, October. The holy month of Ramadhan. Tee Hui Yi was a petite, pretty teenager. So full of life yet so perilously close to death. She had been on a mechanical heart for close to a year. Only a heart transplant would allow her to see her twentieth birthday. Hopes were fading though. But Hui Yi was not about to give up.
Miraculously, on Thursday, October 4, 2007, she got that call. There was a donor.
Instantly the Transplant Team swung into action. The surgeons were mostly Malay. All of them had been fasting but there was no time for a proper buka puasa. One of the anaesthetic doctors was an Indian. I was not part of the surgical team but like many others was a passionate observer wishing everybody well, and willing to lend a hand if the need arose. I distinctly remember thinking to myself that this was the best of what Malaysia had to offer. A few dedicated and skilful Malay heart surgeons with an Indian doctor in the anaesthetic team doing a delicate h
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Hudson Reporter
Secaucus resident searching for living kidney donor
Nancy Talty has stage 5 kidney failure
Nancy and Bernie Talty
In an interview with the
Hudson Reporter, Bernie described his wife Nancy’s urgent need for a new kidney.
Looking for live donors
“You see, my wife Nancy, who is everything to me and mother of two great sons and grandmother of six beautiful grandchildren who are her world, is in stage 5 kidney failure,” Bernie said.
Nancy received a kidney transplant more than 50 years ago from her identical twin sister Mary Ann in February of 1969, Bernie told the
Hudson Reporter. But that kidney has since run its course, and she is in need of another transplant.
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