A 3-year-old girl is getting a second chance at life, but she couldn’t have done it without the help of one selfless man.
After Kennedy Stevenson of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, has been diagnosed with a rare metabolic disease known as “S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase deficiency, or AdoHcy” which affects her ability to process protein, and causing degenerative neurological effects, and after her mum learnt that her daughter would need a liver transplant to survive, Donya McCoy, took to Facebook and posted a “plea of a lifetime,” asking for a volunteer donor. Read the rest on Huffington Post.
Her cry for help was answered when McCoy received a response from Michael Thompson, one of her old high school classmates, ABC7 reported.
“A guy I went to high school with messaged me and said, ‘I have O positive blood,'” McCoy told ABC7.
Though the two weren’t close in school, Thompson was insistent on helping Kennedy. He ended up testing as a match, and the 3-year-old received the transplant on Tuesday, according to McCoy’s Facebook page. The surgery was successful and the two have been doing well since.
“I don’t feel like there’s ever a way that I can thank him enough,” McCoy told ABC7. “I want this to be something that Kennedy knows is a special gift she was given by someone so selfless. That’s the only way I think I could repay him, is to teach her to be as selfless as he is.”
Thompson, a firefighter, said he was just happy he was able to help, especially given his job description.
