HOBART, Ind. (WLS) -- For all its benefits, life after a kidney transplant can be a challenge.

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Most patients remain on anti-rejection medication for life. But for one Indiana man, the opportunity to be part of a clinical trial, at Northwestern Medicine allowed him to forgo all that and keep living life to the fullest.

Fourteen years ago, Edward Jones received a kidney transplant.

He needed the organ after the constant dialysis that slowed down the then firefighter's on-the-go life.

"We actually went on a vacation where I had to spend two days on dialysis. Which didn't' turn out to be much of a vacation for me," Jones said.

It was his eldest son of four, also named Edward, who donated not just a kidney but his stem cells.

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