The 32-year-old horse trainer from Chippewa Falls gave the ultimate gift to his mother this holiday season: a kidney.
The transplant, which was scheduled for Jan. 10, is Patricia Taylor's second and the last the 55-year-old woman is eligible for. The Chippewa County native has fought an ongoing battle against Type 1 diabetes since she was diagnosed at age 19.
The illness led to the amputation of her left leg and took a toll on her kidneys, leading to renal kidney failure in 1999. After a nerve-wracking wait on an organ donor list, Patricia was rushed to surgery for a double transplant of her kidneys and pancreas in June of 2000.
Life regained a semblance of normalcy after the surgery, but the Taylor family knew the organs, taken from a dead donor, would only last so long.
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