![]() You can donate to Marquis's family through the Children's Organ Transplant Association. "I have to be within 9 miles of the hospital. Withrow said she will be staying at the Ronald McDonald House after her son is released from Children's.įor the next 12 weeks or so, she will remain close by as doctors keep a close eye on Marquis. "I've prayed and cried, prayed and cried," Withrow said. Marquis plans to walk at graduation next year. "He said, ‘Are you going to call school? I have to graduate,’" Withrow said. Marquis’s thoughts immediately turned to his school work. "It's the best Christmas gift I could ever get,” Withrow said. "Never did I think that we're going to go through it again - not only one organ, but now he needed two."Ībout 17 hours of surgery later, Marquis can stand now with two new organs. "It was scary and I was like, ‘Lord, please let him live,’" Withrow said. They got to Children's two weeks ago, she said. After successful surgeries, they are both doing great, Carreyn told Faithwire. In 2018, doctors told them Marquis would need heart and kidney transplants. Lyla’s mother, Dena Carreyn, recently spoke with Faithwire about the miracle that unfolded before their eyes when it was their daughter’s pre-K teacher Beth Battista who ended up being the perfect donor match. When his heart stopped, that's when the issues started and they just never recovered." He got a pacemaker on Valentine's Day 2013," she said. They revived him, got him stable and flew him to Cincinnati. That's when his heart stopped in the emergency room. When Marquis was 10, his condition suddenly got worse, his mother said. "He's been fighting all his life - back and forth, and up and down - from Lexington to Cincinnati,” Withrow said. Meaning the left side of his heart was underdeveloped. Marquis was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, "She was like, 'Take your time, but get him here as soon as possible.' I was still like, 'WHAT?'"Īctually, mother and son have been fighting Marquis's whole life, she said.Īt just 5 days old, Marquis had open heart surgery.Īt 3 years old, he had his first heart transplant. The immediate joy and relief were beyond words. We have a heart and kidney for Marquis.'" They kept calling back," Withrow said, until she finally answered. I thought it was a spam call, so I kept hanging up on them. "Marquis was at work when I got the call. I am so proud to have been a part of it and. ![]() Rosie now has hopes of a happy childhood and living a normal life because of a complete. Withrow said she and son were “fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting" for a year and four months until that phone call came - and then she didn't answer it right away. 12, 2013 4-year-old Rosie Thrasher-Miller from Randolph received a kidney from a complete stranger who found her through the Western New York Kidney Connection website. "I’ve got shoes, bags everywhere, but it doesn't matter." ![]() They’re all packed into her white Kia, she said. "I've got enough clothes that'll last me for three months, maybe more," Withrow said. While Marquis will spend the holidays recovering there, his mother, who’s from Lexington, Kentucky, will be counting her blessings and living out of her car here for a while. Withrow’s 17-year-old son, Marquis Davis, just received two special presents – a new heart and new kidney – at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Her mother then received a kidney from another San Antonio donor, whose loved one in turn received a kidney from a third donor in San Antonio.CINCINNATI - Sherri Withrow calls it her "Christmas miracle.” The three-way, same-day kidney exchange was completed Thursday, with three donors and three recipients at two hospitals.ĭyamond’s kidney was given to a San Antonio recipient. That’s when the two decided to join Advocate Christ Medical Center’s paired kidney donor exchange program, which allows a recipient and living donor, who are not a compatible match, to be matched with another donor and recipient to exchange kidneys.ĭyamond Lindsey donated her kidney to a total stranger in San Antonio, Texas so that her mother would in turn receive a kidney from another mismatched donor. Her daughter, Dyamond Lindsey, wanted to donate her kidney to mother, but testing quickly revealed she was not a compatible match. She thought she simply had the flu, but quickly learned her condition was far worse. Sonja Lindsey, a 46-year-old mother of four from Lansing, was put on the waiting list for a kidney transplant after being diagnosed with high blood pressure and kidney failure in December 2014. Donated kidneys also come from recently deceased donors. The procedure is another form of living donor transplantation. Dyamond Lindsey’s mother is in desperate need of a new kidney, so the 21-year-old is donating hers… to a complete stranger. In paired donation, a donor and recipient are matched with another incompatible donor and recipient and the kidneys are exchanged between the pairs.
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