Erlanger Hospital Services

Kidney Transplant Center

My life. My choice. My hospital. Erlanger.

Four years of kidney dialysis treatments left Felix Espinoza feeling sick and weak. “It was really bad,” recalls the Cleveland, Tenn., resident. Then his youngest son, Miguel, 24, stepped up to donate a kidney to his father. The decision, according to the younger Espinoza, was not difficult. “He gave me life,” says Miguel. Adds Felix: “He liked to do it because he loves me.”

In April 2006, Miguel Espinoza of Ooltewah underwent a new, less invasive laparoscopic kidney removal at the Erlanger Kidney Transplant Center, and his father immediately received the new kidney. The Espinozas recovered in hospital rooms across the hall from one another, continuing the circle of life that began six months earlier with the birth of Emilio, Miguel’s son and Felix’s grandson, at the Erlanger Baroness Campus.

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