Bakari Sellers’ daughter Sadie was born in January with a rare liver condition that placed her on the transplant list for three months, Sellers said Thursday morning on CNN’s “New Day.”
“She’s doing well. She kept me up last night,” Sellers said. “She is coming back to life and showing us those glimmers in her eyes. We are just happy to be at Duke. Happy to have the care that we got. We’re just very thankful at this time and very thankful to the donor’s family who saved our daughter’s life and many lives as well.”
“We have so many patients waiting,” Mavis said. “The other opportunity is we can do living donors. So we gladly accept altruistic living donors to where someone says I’d like to be worked up as a donor for someone I don’t know and may never know, but I would be glad to donate.”
When it comes to the liver, one of its two lobes can be donated because cells in the remaining lobe grow or regenerate until it’s almost its original size, HRSA added. Most living donations happen through family members or close friends.
Sellers became emotional while discussing the donor process which precluded him from donating part of his liver to Sadie due to his size.
He thanked Duke University and his wife Ellen Rucker Sellers, calling her “by far, the strongest woman.”
“The words don’t really encompass everything that we’ve been through,” Sellers said.
Source : CNN