'I can see my daughter graduate.' LI teacher gifts colleague another chance at life with kidney donation
Thomas Conveney says Maggie Goodman has given him the chance to see milestones in his daughter's life that he otherwise may have missed.
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An East Atlantic Beach woman donated her kidney to a fellow teacher earlier this month at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.
Maggie Goodman, 34, heard her co-worker, 47-year-old Thomas Conveney, was in need of a kidney. She got tested for compatibility and realized she was a match.
Goodman says she felt "very lucky" to be the one who was able to help Conveney, who is also a Long Island native.
Conveney says Goodman has given him the chance to see milestones in his daughter's life that he otherwise may have missed.
"I can see my daughter graduate - maybe I can see her wedding," Conveney says.
Both Goodman and Conveney, who work together at a Queens middle school, hope it serves as an important lesson for their students.
"I think it's a good thing for them to see someone helping someone else," Goodman says. "And maybe they take that with them, maybe they don't, but if one kid it sticks with, that's a great thing for me."
