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Updated: 12:05 PM PST, December 24, 2020
California s baby Jacob Cooper, who was diagnosed with biliary atresia, will celebrate the holidays in good health, thanks to Michael Speck, a grandfather hailing from Ohio.
A California baby is in good health and able to celebrate his second Christmas, thanks to a kind stranger who traveled across the country amid a pandemic to donate his liver and save the boy s life.
Young Jacob Cooper “enjoys life” and “is a natural smiler” according to a blog post written by his parents for the Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA).
The California tot was born in early December 2019, but spent most of his initial months in and out of the hospital because of jaundice. That’s when they discovered he was born with biliary atresia, a rare liver disease that can be deadly.
Ashland Times Gazette
ASHLAND - Five people stood waiting in the parking lot of Union Lofts Apartments on Thursday afternoon, bundled to stay warm in the wintry chill. Chatting, they looked to the northeast, toward Sugarbush Drive, and they listened for sirens.
It was Ashlee Younce s 16th birthday, and she and her family were waiting for a special celebration to begin.
Just around the corner, in the parking lot of the Ashland Home Depot, family friend Patrick Buckley of Elyria was watching as vehicles assembled to parade past Ashlee s home.
Ashlee has end-stage renal failure, and is waiting for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. In the meantime, her mother, Becki Younce, takes her to Akron Children s Hospital three times a week for dialysis an hour to get there, four hours at the hospital and another hour home.