Transplant patient faces another test

Six years later, Ferreira will require new kidney

By Jackie MacMullan

Globe Staff / July 17, 2007

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Michael Ferreira was given the precious gift of life not once, but twice from his mother, Dawn Frasca, who donated a kidney to her son June 19, 2001. Ferreira, who was a teenager at the time and suffered from a disease that shrank his kidneys, not only recovered but went on to star on the Nantucket basketball team and became ... (Full article: 571 words)