Pittsburgh, PA, June 14, 2011–There’s a 30-year-old Bermudian man who goes about his life quietly on the Island. He doesn’t look to seek out praise. He doesn’t want to be in any sort of limelight. He almost wouldn’t talk to me for this article because to his mind what he did was not to be bragged about or even applauded it was “just what families do stick together”.
On January 27, three days before he turned 30, Calvin Ming III gave one of his kidneys to his father heart transplant recipient, Calvin Ming, Jr.
“He needed help to survive. I don’t know anyone that wouldn’t do this for their father,” he said. “That’s what families do stick together.”
The elder Mr Ming is a much loved and well-known community service worker. He’s a Government Probation Officer, member of the Salvation Army and was an Executive Director of NADA, the forerunner to the National Drugs Commission.
Mr Ming had a heart transplant in April 1993 at the age of 46. The surgery was carried out at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
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