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Family raises $40K for man to travel cross-country to donate kidney to cousin Share Updated: 11:36 AM PST Dec 28, 2020 Kyla Linville Share Updated: 11:36 AM PST Dec 28, 2020
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Show Transcript HE TELLS YOU IT BEGAN THREE YEARS AGO DURING A DOCTOR S VISIT. BILLY MCCONNELL OVERALL LIVES A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. HE S 38 YEARS OLD, WORKS OUT ON A REGULAR BASIS, EATS WELL, SO HEALTH CONCERNS WERE THE LAST THING ON HIS MIND. BUT DURING THAT CHECK UP, DOCTORS DISCOVERED HE HAS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. BILLY MCCONNEL JR. IS A BROTHER, SON AND FRIEND..AND MORE RECENTLY HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH KIDNEY DISEASE.AND IN NOVEMBER..WAS TOLD BY HIS DOCTOR HE NEEDS A TRANSPLANT. THIS ALL BEGAN IN 2017 AS BILLY WAS NEARING DEPLOYMENT. Billy McConnel 0:12:53 If I didn t have that medical appointment for a deployment three years ago, they said I probably would have just one day going into kidney failure because they would have had n