Nearly eight years ago, a Hoosier four-year-old needed a miracle. Just when her family thought it was over, a family from Montana stepped up, using their tragedy to save a life.
Just when her family thought it was over, a family from Montana stepped up, using their tragedy to save a life.“Seeing her grow is the best gift they have ever given us,” Itzel Maya, the mother of Maddy Guzman Maya, said."In her case, it was unique because we had to go from just having an intestine transplant to having a multi-organ transplant and that includes delivering the stomach, pancreas, and intestine so you're transplanting 4 organs simultaneously,” Dr.
On April 22, 2016, while Landon was at the lake with his father and sister, a faulty dock changed Foley's life. Landon was airlifted to a hospital in Washington, where doctors finally broke the heart-wrenching news. "That he wasn't going to survive, and did we want to do an organ donation? No question in my mind. I said, 'Yes' immediately,” said Foley. “There was nothing we could do for him, but we could do something for someone else.""We're there for every part of it because we wouldn't trust anybody else to do it,” Mangus said.On Wednesday, for the first time, Foley traveled more than a thousand miles to meet Maddy and Dr.
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