Winston- Salem, NC-- We hear about organ donor stories all the time, and we know it gives so many a second chance at life. But it's not every day that we hear about a 22-month old baby girl as the recipient.
News 2's Liz Crawford talked with a Triad mom about what she calls, "her miracle baby Rose."
After almost two years of caring for her sick baby and doctors telling her, "It's in God's hands," Dana Hedrick-Burnsides got the call she'd been praying for. It came at 2:00 a.m., just two days after Mother's Day, and said "come To Brenner's Children's Hospital. We think we have a match."
For Dana, her Baby Rose has struggled to survive. Born a "renal baby," with failing kidneys, a premature Rose started hemodialysis at just four weeks old.
Dana told News 2, "She was between about 6 and 7 pounds, very, very risky, very risky. Doctors were concerned, we were concerned."
But that was only the beginning of a long and uncertain journey for Baby Rose. With her kidney failure came major complications. Rose could only eat from feeding tubes and her heart became enlarged. Baby Rose spent most of her life at the hospital, everyday touch and go.
Read more- VIDEO: http://www.digtriad.com/news/local/article/229237/57/A-Kidney-Transplant-Saves-Baby-Rose
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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