Guadalupe Regional Medical Center | Health Currents | Spring 2019

5 How you can give hope and save a life GRMEDCENTER.COM I n th i s i s sue Standard U.S. Postage PAID Walla Walla, WA Permit No. 44 HEALTH CURRENTS ADVANCED MEDICINE. PERSONAL TOUCH. SPRING 2019 THIS IS THE STORY of a life saved by the most precious and selfless of gifts and by the marvel of medical technology and compassion. This is also the story of the Vincent and the Sandusky families of Seguin, whose lives and families will now be forever intertwined. As most of us were packing up our holiday decorations and making resolutions for a healthy new year in early January, these two local families were in the midst of far weightier plans. On the morning of Jan. 9, a surgical team at San Antonio’s Methodist Specialty Transplant Hospital was preparing an operating room to receive patient Jessica Vincent for the purpose of removing one of her two healthy kidneys. In the adjacent operating room, another team of highly skilled professionals was preparing to receive patient Dane Sandusky with the goal of placing Jessica’s healthy kidney in his ailing body. By the end of that day, those goals were accomplished. By the end of that week, both Jessica and Dane had returned to their homes, each healing and each with healthy kidney functions. Living on a prayer Dane, the husband of Guadalupe Regional Medical Center nurse aide Ashlee Sandusky, was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease in 2013—a hereditary disease that had already taken the life of his mother, grandmother, and several —Continued on page 2 A miraculous gift