Video: Woman Donates Kidney to Fellow UM Colleague

OXFORD, Miss. (WCBI) — Two North Mississippi women not only share their love for Ole Miss, they also share a kidney.

Charlotte Pegues and Leslie Banahan work together at the University of Mississippi.

When Banahan learned her friend needed a new kidney after Pegues’ started to fail, she knew she had to help.

“When she shared with us – this group of friends – that she had to go on dialysis, it just broke my heart,” Banahan said. “And I was trying to think, ‘What can I do?'”

“I don’t think I can really articulate and express to you just how much it means to me that someone who’s not a blood relative, thought enough of me to do such a thing,” Pegues said.

The transplant surgery was done at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Banahan came back to work 10 weeks after the surgery. Pegues will return soon.