2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Facebook became the platform that helped Miles Wagner, a 2-year-old boy who urgently needed a kidney transplant, find a donor. The transplant, performed on Monday, will allow the little one to enjoy not only his life, but also more time with his father, who is dying of cancer.
The odyssey of Ryan and Ashley Wagner began three years ago, almost at the same time they received the news happiest of his life were to be parents. But the couple didn't have much time to enjoy the good news because doctors soon diagnosed 32-year-old Ryan with colon cancer. His condition was detected in phase 4, which is why, according to his doctors, it was no longer curable.
Months later, in August 2014, her son Miles was born. Within weeks, the baby was diagnosed with primary hyperoxaluria, a metabolic disorder that causes, among other things, kidney failure and damage to other organs.
Doctors informed the family that little Miles would need two transplants: one for liver, and one for kidney. The first was done last year, but finding a kidney donor was difficult. Desperate, Ashley, 33, posted this message to help her son on his Facebook wall: "Is saving a life on your wish list?"
When his former classmate Elizabeth Wolodkiewicz read it, he wondered, "Shouldn't it be on everyone's wish list to save a life?" Yesterday, she was able to fulfill that wish by donating one of her kidneys to little Miles.
As reported by the Today (NBC) portal, although the Wagners and Wolodkiewicz were schoolmates in Johnsburg, Illinois, they had not been friends. However, she had been following their Facebook page, Team Ryan.
"I was touched," Wolodkiewicz told that portal. "It was also an honor to be chosen to be a part of this story, especially the 'good' part of her story."
On his Facebook page, the boy's father indicated a few hours ago that the operation went well and that he is grateful to the donors who made it possible for his son to stay alive. “The BRIGHT bright future that awaits Miles would not have been possible without his incredible organ donors. Having been on the list of organ recipients not once, but twice, amazes me.”
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