Forgive Alexis Poythress for being late with her mother’s 50th birthday present.
Life-changing medical tests can take a little longer than expected.
The belated gift was worth the wait for Regina Poythress as her daughter was deemed a perfect match for a kidney transplant that would end an arduous journey of more than seven years on daily nine-hour dialysis.
Regina is the mother of Hawks player Alex Poythress, whose twin sister Alexis donated a kidney in February in a surgery that changed the course of several lives in the family.
“It had been going on so long,” Alexis said during a recent family visit to Atlanta to see her brother, a trip that would have been difficult just a month ago.