Inmate, Daughter in Stable Condition
Both father and daughter were doing well Wednesday, a day after a lifesaving kidney transplant reunited them and created a bond they never had before.
Renada Daniel-Patterson and her father, convicted burglar David Patterson, were both in stable condition at UC San Francisco Medical Center, where the surgeries were performed Tuesday.
The 13-year-old Vallejo girl and her father, who is serving a seven-year sentence at Folsom prison, had not seen each other for five years. He had deserted her mother before Renada was born, then turned to a life of crime that put him in jail twice.
But Patterson, 34, decided in November to mend his ways and “be the daddy I should have been a long time ago” by donating one of his kidneys to the daughter he never really knew.
Patterson has been under 24-hour guard since he was admitted to the hospital and will be returned to jail as soon as he is healthy, probably within a week.
It could be months before doctors can tell whether Renada’s body accepts the kidney.
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