Baseball Coach Donates Kidney to Athlete
Baseball Coach Donates Kidney to Athlete
Young boy stuck on dialysis receives a kidney from his baseball coach.
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" On the diamond Kevin Jordan is a jewel of a player sporting a coveted mixed up power in speech. But the freshman outfielder yet to play his first college game couldn't out run the disease. -- just -- something called make a basket -- struck just months after he's fun to play Wii Sports. He went from healthy to up to twenty hours of dialysis a day he needed a transplant time was running out."
" Two days ago. Kevin had kidney failure and one day and 23 hours ago he didn't and that's really remarkable thing about. Situation that he was and what do donor couldn't be found in his family his coat to Walter stepped up to the plate and scored a perfect match. You respond. The number one -- This this whole process is never gonna -- you can. You know this is always do not -- it's it's -- normal life."
" Kevin's not giving up on returning to his field of dreams no matter how tough the recovery might be in fact doctors say he could at least start Sweden again though probably not playing in about eight weeks. Kevin -- eight weeks can't get here fast enough."
" If you don't play upon it -- yes you do get going down and make sure got to do. The action sequences and to me how. Hard. A coach going to bat for a player and when -- winning more than just a game. Ron -- in BC news Atlanta."
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