What a sweet story!!! ================================= Boston Man Gives Husband Gift Of Life by Margo Williams, 365Gay.com Boston Bureau March 13, 2006 - 12:01 am ET (Boston, Massachusetts) A Boston area man is doing well after a receiving a kidney from his husband in what is believed to be the first case of an organ transplant between legally married same-sex partners. Bill Mokeler said there was no question in his mind about whether to donate his kidney to Paul Sagon, his husband of two years. He gave the gift on Valentine's Day. Mokeler and Sagon married two years ago in Malden, Massachusetts. The transplant means Sagon no longer has to endure painful dialysis. He had been regularly connected to the machine since May 1998. "Words cannot describe what his sacrifice means to me," Sagon, 37, told the Boston Herald. Sagon's sister might have been a better genetic match but Sagon refused to allow her to be a donor because she is a single mother and he thought the procedure would be too risky. Mokeler, 42, suffers from debilitating arthritis and was initially ruled out as a potential donor because of the heavy medication he takes. Last October, without telling Sagon, he decided to stop taking the pills and find out if he would qualify. "The pain I endured was nothing in comparison to what he had to endure with his kidneys," Mokeler told the Herald. He was told he was a good donor match on the week of their first wedding anniversary. He told the paper that he prepared dinner and told Sagon he had a present for him. The couple say that the operation just happened to fall on ValentineÕs Day.
