Both women have spent their lives with health conditions that compelled these transplants.
CHICAGO â A life-saving organ transplant is one of the greatest gifts you can receive, but two friends from a small town in Kankakee County said they have three reasons to celebrate that their experience is nothing short of a miracle.Walking through the halls of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood ...'It's so funny to be coming through here as a visitor instead of a patient.
They found those prayers answered just days apart on July 5 for Rattin and July 8 for Stout, each waking up in the hospital to find her friend had also been admitted for a life-changing organ donation.'My daughter actually said, 'Mom, Erin has got her heart. They are doing surgery right now.' And I couldn't be more excited. I was just praising God for that,' Rattin said.'I prayed, and I prayed, and I prayed. There were times that I was very doubtful.
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