Miracle × 3 by Julian Kesner
Daily News, 06/16/2006
‘I thought that’d be impossible,’ sez quadrilegic L.I. dad of triplets boys
Ken Kunken never thought in his wildest dreams that he'd be able to celebrate Father's Day as a dad.
Then, his dream came true - not once, not twice, but three times over.
Almost completely paralyzed from the neck down in a 1970 football mishap, the 55-year-old Nassau County assistant district attorney and his wife, Anna, had their dreams come true last year when she gave birth to triplets, thanks to a relentless urologist and the miracles of modern medicine.
Dr. Bruce Gilbert of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I., harvested sperm from his quadriplegic patient through a testicular biopsy, then cryogenically froze it until the Kunkens decided they were ready to try having a child through in-vitro fertilization. /full article/ |
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