Overview
- Susanne Deegan donated a kidney to restaurant manager David Geliashvili on March 10 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.
- Both are recovering well, with Geliashvili off dialysis and Deegan back at work and her normal exercise routine.
- Doctors diagnosed Geliashvili with polycystic kidney disease in December 2024, and he underwent dialysis every other day for 14 months.
- Deegan, a longtime customer of La Bussola in Glen Cove, offered to be tested at a dinner and was cleared as a match in February.
- Northwell surgeons say living-donor kidneys usually start working almost right away, and the system reports 215 kidney transplants in 2025, 58 from live donors, with more than 700 people waiting locally and over 80,000 on the national list.