news Bus driver Pete Pizzuti gets second shot at life after live transplant saves him

[Harry]

Brooklyn bus driver Pete Pizzuti was getting ready to take his sweetheart out for a plate of linguini at L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst when his phone rang.

 

It was his doctor with news he'd been waiting almost a year to hear: A liver had suddenly become available and he needed to get to the hospital for a transplant - right away!

 

With everyone falling apart around him, and the clock ticking, the 63-year-old former Marine and rock of his family took a deep breath and executed the plan he had rehearsed for months.

 

He called his family, put his wallet in his pocket and calmly drove himself through the Battery Tunnel to New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center on the upper East Side.

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/11/14/2010-11-14_bus_driver_gets_2nd_shot_at_life_liver_transplant_saves_granddad.html#ixzz15MkMf0AZ

[LRG]

Good to hear this. I hope the B/O is doing well now.

[KNIGHTRIDER3:16]

Great News to hear .... The Docs taking care of the Brotherhood

[Blatherskite]

I can't wait for the day when stem cell research progresses further and someone in need of an organ can create a new one himself with his own cells so his body won't reject it, and won't have to take immune supressing drugs. It must be hell waiting on someone to go brain dead to get one of their organs.

[Locomotion69]

Great story, not surprised that there are no comments in the Daily News online edition. But when a negative story involving a MTA worker is in the paper everybody has something to say.:mad: