“Toddler With Rare Kidney Disorder Beats Odds After Transplant Fails” - Dr. Jeffrey Saland
Ayana Richards said she will never forget waking up in the hospital to find out that the kidney she donated to her 3-year-old daughter had failed.
The doctor came in two hours after initially telling Richards the transplant was a success to say that a blood clot had destroyed the new organ beyond repair.
“I remember him having tears in his eyes,” said Richards, who lives in New York City. “I have to take pause because that moment, I think, is one of the lowest points in my life I ever had.”
But the doctors at Mount Sinai weren’t willing to give up so easily.