50 years later, Bellingham woman celebrates milestone kidney transplant anniversary: HealthLink

SEATTLE — In 1975, a Bellingham woman received a kidney transplant. Fifty years later, she’s living to tell the tale of the gift of a lifetime.

Vicki Haggen was 24 years old at the time and newly married; her whole life was ahead of her.

“I just graduated from college, and we were looking to start a family. I wasn’t feeling really good, but my mom thought I was just bored,” Haggen said, laughing…

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