Christine and Joey Gibson are trying everything to get their infant son a new liver: traveling to three different states to list him with transplant centers, begging on social media and even offering a piece of Joey’s liver in a swap if a compatible donor has someone in their life who needs an organ.
The waitlist for a liver from a deceased donor near their home in Arizona is long enough that 10-month-old Stetson likely wouldn’t receive a transplant before his organ failed entirely, Christine Gibson said. His best shot at survival is to find a living donor, but not all hospitals perform that type of transplant for children.
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