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Dr. Staci Lee: Her profound gift saved a man’s life
Eddie Hall is a revered drama teacher at Cane Bay High School in Charleston, South Carolina.
He had recently married his love Jessica, and was very happy. Then tragedy struck.
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Just two days after the wedding, Eddie’s kidneys suddenly failed and he needed an immediate kidney transplant to survive.
Then a miracle occurred.
After an urgent nationwide search, an anonymous donor in Billings, Montana 2,100 miles away donated a kidney to save Eddie’s life.
Eddie was profoundly grateful and was determined to meet his donor.
In response, that donor Dr. Staci Lee, a medical doctor arrived at Cane Bay High School and in front of his students Eddie and Jessica embraced her.
Why did Dr. Lee make such a remarkable gift?
“I really wanted to be a part of something so beautiful and so good,” she told ABC News.
Editor's Note:
Enjoy this heartwarming 2-minute, 20-second video, as you meet Dr. Lee and Eddie and Jessica, Eddie’s drama class and the doctor who performed his life-saving surgery.
In the U.S., there is a terrible shortage of kidneys for transplant. 13-people die each day awaiting a life-saving kidney, and the median wait time for a kidney is 3.6-years.
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