A Gloversville mother and her 21-year-old son are recovering from the first mother-to-son kidney transplant in the history of Albany Medical Center Hospital.

Mrs. Mary Kennicutt, 225 South Main Street, returned home Thursday night and yesterday told The Leader-Herald, "I'm feeling just fine."

On Aug. 12, a team of surgeons at the Albany hospital successfully replaced the ailing hospital successfully replaced the ailing kidney of Anthony Kennicutt, a 1967 graduate of Gloversville High School, with a healthy one from his mother.

It was only the eighth kidney transplant performed at the hospital, and the first of its kind.

John Cassidy, public relations director for the hospital, told The Leader-herald by telephone yesterday that the hospital considers the Kennicutt transplant "a total success in every way."

Anthony was expected to be released from the hospital some time today and will return to Gloversville. Mrs. Kennicutt said yesterday there had apparently developed "some sort of minor infection" at an injection site on her son's arm, but said neither she nor the doctors were alarmed about it.

Mrs. Kennicutt, found yesterday entertaining a front porchful of neighbors and relatives, was hesitant to talk much about the experience but did insist that everything "went along fine" and life is returning to normal.

She and her son weren't the only family members to see a hospital bed during that time. Her husband is recovering from a severe case of pneumonia at the Albany Veterans Hospital. He was reported today to be improving and "out of danger."