Joanne Jackson can finally have her cake and eat it too. Refusing to give up hope after a failed kidney transplant a few years ago, Joanne found out on February 7, 2003, her birthday, that there was a kidney match. "It was the best birthday gift I ever received," smiles Joanne. Now off of dialysis, Joanne will not only be able to celebrate her many birthdays to come, but her three-year old grandson's as well. She has also undergone a successful pancreas transplant as well.





