"My offer stands." Nurse donates own kidney to patient in need

Emory Woodruff Health Sciences | Lance M Skelly

Emory University Hospital transplant nurse Allison Batson has spent many years caring for patients in need of a life-saving organ transplant. She has seen many patients’ lives saved because of the gift of organ donation … and many others lost because a matching organ simply could not be located in time.

This time, Batson was not only in the position to provide comfort and care at the bedside of a young patient in desperate need of a kidney transplant, she selflessly gave of herself – literally- by becoming an organ donor to 23 year-old Clay Taber of Columbus, Ga.

Taber, who recently graduated from Auburn University and is set to marry his college sweetheart in June, has been eagerly looking toward his future, while at the same time battling the fight of his life.

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