Galveston County Daily News, Jan. 14, 2009 This article is about the second member of a South Texas family who has had a kidney transplant at UTMB. Carmen Guerra, mother of the two transplant patients, said, "I wasn't nervous. I knew my son, like my daughter before him, was in good hands." UTMB nurse Suzanne Couture said the cousins' attitudes made all the difference. "They came to UTMB with the attitude, ‘I'm ready to have this done,'" she said. "They've been wonderful patients." Performing the surgery was a team of UTMB transplant surgeons, physicians and nurses, including Drs. Luca Cicalese, Emad Asham, Philip Thomas, Kristene Gugliuzza and Horacio E. Adrogue. "We are so happy that we were able to recover so quickly after Ike and that we're able to offer comprehensive transplant services again to patients like Robert," Cicalese said.