{"id":826,"date":"2021-04-30T18:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:49:59","slug":"69-year-old-woman-waits-a-full-year-for-a-liver-transplant-then-gives-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/04\/30\/69-year-old-woman-waits-a-full-year-for-a-liver-transplant-then-gives-it-away\/","title":{"rendered":"69-Year-Old Woman Waits a Full Year for a Liver Transplant, Then Gives it Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are few situations that make a person feel more desperate or helpless than being placed on an organ donation list.<\/p>\n

And as ABC affiliate WFAA in Texas reports<\/strong><\/a>, 69-year-old great-grandmother Brenda Jones knows that feeling all too well.<\/p>\n

In desperate need of a liver transplant, Brenda spent a full year on the donation waiting for her name to move to the top and hoping that a donation would come through in time.<\/p>\n

But when it finally did, there was a pretty big catch. When doctors called to inform her that she was at the top of the list and there was a liver available, they also told her they had an emergency patient, a 23-year-old woman who wasn’t on the list, but would die within a day if she didn’t receive a liver transplant immediately.<\/p>\n

They asked Brenda the impossible question: would she give up the liver she’d been waiting a year for, and give it to the young woman?<\/p>\n

For most of us the decision would be gut wrenching. For Brenda, it was a no brainer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my heart, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to live with the liver if I had let this little girl die,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Check out the video below to see the full story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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