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MILWAUKEE- We have an update on a story we first told you about last August.

 Wisconsin's first person to donate a kidney told me he was fearless when he underwent that pioneer surgery in 1958. The reason was simple. Henry ray wanted to save his brothers life. Ray recalls, "Any tests they needed to go through, I said lets get the blood tests. Whatever it was I was willing." Henry's twin brother lived 5 years after the operation. It was long enough to have a child. That child, Beverly Weber is now an adult living in North Carolina. She was recently in Milwaukee visiting her uncle and his family. Though Weber never got to know her dad, she says keeping in touch with his brother and his family gives her comfort. Weber says, "It's just like walking into a family that your around every day." Her uncle adds, "It completes the family." Henry Ray wants people to know, you can live a full life with one kidney. He wants more people to be aware of organ donation. Thirty percent of the people in this country have not signed an organ donor card.

Ray rejoices in his wonderful family and great health and reconnecting with his brothers daughter. After all, Beverly Weber is blessed to have life. It's all because of an uncle brave enough to risk his.