Meet Magnolia “Maggie”

Maggie received the gift of life this year just days before her second birthday when she received her donor kidney.  We are hopeful her new kidney will ensure a happy and healthy year for her.

Maggie was diagnosed in utero with bilateral multi-cystic kidneys which is almost always fatal.  The family was told that she would most likely only survive a few hours after birth.  She defied the odds.  Maggie spent five weeks in the NICU before beginning weekly dialysis treatments at seven-weeks-old.  The family knew dialysis was not a cure and she would require a kidney transplant in order to survive. 

That life-saving gift of a donor kidney came on August 5.  Maggie is steadily making a strong recovery and the family, including five older siblings, returned home to Lynchburg after a monht at Fox Hollow but not before her older siblings enjoyed a visit from the Free Book Bus.