Tonya Burt and her father, the late Nolan Arrowood, who suffered from polycystic kidney disease, will be featured on the Discovery Channel tonight (Thursday) at 9 p.m.

Titled "Surgery Saved My Life," the documentary tells the story of Burt, Arrowood, and four other individuals participating in "paired kidney exchange surgery" at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last May.

In essence, three donors and three recipients were operated on simultaneously, with each donor receiving a kidney that was a perfect match.

Burt's kidney went to Alex Pratt who lives in California and is reportedly doing very well.

In her remarks, Burt said, "The only reason we agreed to appear in the documentary was to increase public awareness of the paired kidney exchange transplant program which will hopefully make the program more accessible to people in the Southeast. Although the broadcast will be hard to watch, we, as a family, felt that to allow the show to air would be what Daddy would have wanted. We want it to be a tribute to him."

She went on to say, "While I will never understand the reason my daddy didn't make it, the peace I have is that Mr. Pratt is doing well and his young children will be able to have their daddy in their lives for a long time to come. Kidney donations and transplants save lives every day."

In a side note, Raphael Quintero, one of the three kidney recipients in Burt's group, was a former CIA agent.

"He was a special agent involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and so much more," said Burt. "His story is unbelievable. If you goggle 'Raphael Quintero,' you can read about him."

Mr. Quintero passed away two months after Mr. Arrowood, who was the recipient of Mrs. Quintero's kidney.