When Peggy Hemmens’ kidney began to fail, she expected a long wait for a transplant. The 60-year-old Aurora resident already had undergone a kidney transplant eight years before and knew she carried antibodies that would make 80 to 90 percent of living donors with her blood type incompatible matches. But thanks to a program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Hemmens’ wait time was cut from 10 to ...
