The story of a living donor

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Another option for a transplant is a living donor.

You can donate a whole kidney and parts of your liver.

That’s exactly what living donor, Margaret Rollins, did for her now, two-year old daughter.

When her daughter was just six weeks old, she was diagnosed with a rare liver disease.

The infant underwent her first surgery at six weeks old and it failed.

When Rollins daughter turned one, she was listed for a living donor on the deceased donor registry list.

“There was a shortage of organs at that time, so they decided to put me forward as a living donor candidate and we went through the testing and the process and a little over three weeks after starting the testing, I found out that I was a perfect match for my daughter and within a few weeks, we were in surgery and I was giving her a piece of my liver and she’s doing fabulous now, says mother and living donor, Margaret Rollins.

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