HACKENSACK -- The large white box had flown more than 2,500 miles on the red-eye from San Francisco wedged into the baggage compartment of a Boeing 737. When it finally landed in Newark at 6:43 this morning, the delivery was already 20 minutes behind schedule.
Inside the Continental Airlines office, Ruben Lambert, nervously checked his Blackberry. Finally, a little after 7 a.m., a truck that had been dispatched to the tarmac, pulled up to the office with the priority package. Juggling two boxes, the delivery man jumped out, letting the top one tumble to the ground.
"Oh my God, that’s not the kidney is it?" Lambert asked, a look of horror crossing his face.
It wasn’t, and within minutes a much-relieved Lambert, an organ procurement specialist from the NJ Sharing Network, was speeding the kidney to Hackensack University Medical Center
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
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