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Kidney donor is an ‘angel’ to man she saved match with Geliashvili, 51. On March 10, they both underwent surgery at North Shore UniverWhat began as a celebratory sity Hospital, in Manhasset, birthday dinner at a popular and they reunited days later Glen Cove restaurant led to a with the transplant team, life-altering moment when marking the success of a proceSusanne Deegan, of Sea Cliff, dure that ended over a year of told La Bussola manager David uncertainty and physical stress Geliashvili, of for Geliashvili. Locust Valley, that “There are not she would get tested enough words for to see if she could me to thank donate a kidney. Susanne,” he said. Deegan and her “I call her my angel. husband, Daniel, There are angels were celebrating his among us.” 60th birthday on Geliashvili’s jourJuly 8, surrounded ney to a transplant b y f a m i l y a n d DR. ELLIOT began in the fall of friends at the Ital- GRODSTEIN 2024, when he began ian restaurant. As North Shore experiencing fatigue Susanne was enjoyand shortness of University Hospital ing a favorite dish, breath. He initially stuffed artichokes, believed he had the the evening took a serious turn flu. But by December 2024, his when Geliashvili revealed trou- condition had worsened, and he bling news. went to the emergency room, “He told us at the table he where doctors diagnosed him said, ‘I’m sick and I need a kid- with polycystic kidney disease ney,’” Deegan recounted. “I — a condition that had also said, ‘I’ll get tested.’” affected members of his family. At the time, it was a spontaWithin days of his diagnosis, neous response. But months he began dialysis treatments, a later, that pledge became a real- demanding process in which he ity. After a series of medical spent four hours every other e v a l u a t i o n s , D e e g a n , 5 5 , day connected to a machine. learned in February birthday “Fourteen months, every that she was a blood type CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
By ROKSANA AMID
ramid@liherald.com
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he real solution is to find a living donor.
Courtesy Gaitley Stevenson-Mathews
Chad Ryals, left, and Tony Jimenez met in 2018, at a Memorial Day event. They became close friends, bonding over their experience with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tony Jimenez, who served in Vietnam and City Hall, dies By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
Tony Jimenez’s older brother, Phil, still remembers a moment that defined who his brother was long before Glen Cove came to know him. “I didn’t know what to do,” Phil recalled of a childhood encounter when a group of kids tried to take their bicycles. “I was ready to give them the bicycles. My brother — no, these are ours. You’re not taking them. And he just stood up strong … he just knew what to do, instinct.” Anthony “Tony” Pasquale Jimenez, a dec-
orated Vietnam veteran, a longtime Glen Cove public servant and a fixture in the community, died last Sunday, at age 74. Born on July 12, 1951, Jimenez was raised in Lower Manhattan’s Alphabet City, growing up in the projects with his siblings. “It was a 14-story building,” Phil said, recalling their early years, before the family moved to Levittown in search of a safer life. “We lived on the seventh floor.” Even as a child, those close to him said, Jimenez had a quiet confidence, and an instinct to protect others. “He helped so many people and did so much without fanCONTINUED ON PAGE 6