Albany officer receives kidney transplant after community-wide search for donor

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - An Albany Police Department (APD) officer who once faced an uncertain future while battling Stage 5 kidney disease is now recovering after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant.Officer Quas’Jon Flowers, known as “Q,” underwent surgery at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital on Oct. 29, nearly a year after his family first shared his story and asked the community for help finding a donor.Flowers’ story reached thousands of people across South Georgia and beyond. Among those who stepped forward was family friend Mary Alice Faircloth, who went through the screening process and was ultimately identified as a compatible donor.Flowers also had another individual volunteer to donate a kidney through a voucher program after learning they were not a compatible match.Both Flowers and Faircloth recovered well from surgery. According to his wife, Binkey, Flowers was already walking the day of his transplant, and his new kidney began functioning almost immediately.His kidney function