Former Texas A&M and Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie and his kidney donor, Ericka Downey, are doing well following a roughly two-minute transplant on Tuesday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Downey, a 33-year-old Oklahoma mother of two who never had met Gillispie before offering to give him one of her kidneys, said Wednesday on her Facebook page that she had yet to see Gillispie but that she had received positive reports from their surgeon.
"His renal function is improving and his creatinine levels are coming down," Downey wrote. "The kidney is working! Praise God!"
Downey decided to offer one of her kidneys, which turned out to be the one on her left side, after reading a Dec.