(NEWS NOW) .- A 10-month-old baby is alive thanks to a gift from a stranger, who did not hesitate to help him even though he was more than 2 miles away.
According to CBS News, the little Jacob Cooper was born with biliary atresia, a blockage of bile flow from the liver to the gallbladder which can be fatal.
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The California native needed a liver transplant to survive.
“I was getting sicker and sicker. He was hospitalized for an infection before the transplant. I was critically ill”, Explained his doctor Yuri Genyk, who attended him in the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
The boy’s father, Jacob, offered to donate the organ necessary to your child, but a check-up found a growth near your pelvis, which disqualified him from donating. Eventually it was determined that it was a benign tumor.
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Both Jacob and the mother, Aileen, were not compatible, so the doctors started looking for a donor external. They found him weeks later, already 2,000 miles from California, in Ohio.
Michael Speck is 64 years old and had already donated a kidney long time. “The surgeon told me it was a little 10 month old baby. When I found out about that I started crying”, Narrated the donor.
Speck He traveled to Los Angeles in October, in the middle of the pandemic, to carry out the transplant, which fortunately was a success.
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Chad and Aileen Cooper recently met the man who helped save their little one’s life, and thanked him for the best christmas present that a family could receive.
“There are no words to describe how grateful we are to you, Michael. You saved our son’s life”, Expressed the mother in the video call through Zoom.
“It’s my honor”Replied the donor, who hopes that many people will follow his example. “There are many people out there who can do the same as I did. Being able to donate (an organ) to a child… is a miracle, ”Speck said.
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