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Albert Haynesworth

Meet the man whom ex-Titans star Albert Haynesworth calls an 'angel' for giving him a kidney

Portrait of Ben Arthur Ben Arthur
Nashville Tennessean

Zach Penny felt sleepy. 

It hit him waking up in the recovery room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, after five hours of surgery. And even with the anesthesia he’d been given, there was the pressure, too. A lot of it. Along with bladder pain. 

It was all expected, though. He had signed up for it; to have his lower abdomen cut open to give a kidney to someone who needed it. It’s why he made the seven-hour drive from Crossett, Arkansas, to Nashville.

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