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Lehigh Valley man was 9 when he received a lifesaving kidney transplant 44 years ago

A Lehigh Valley man is one of the longest-surviving kidney transplant recipients in the country. 

Michael Seidick was 9 when he became the first Lehigh Valley resident to receive a pediatric kidney transplant in 1978.  A few years later, that kidney failed and he received another as a teen.

Now, more than 40 years later, the Whitehall resident is raising awareness about the importance of being an organ donor

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