Facebook Helps Find Kidney Donor To Save Girl's Life
Ten-year-old Vivica Loyd's mom, Donette Warren, used Facebook to find a kidney donor to save her daughter's life.
A girl in Minnesota got a new kidney from a kind stranger found via a Facebook post.
Ten-year-old Vivica Loyd’s mom, Donette Warren, used Facebook to find a donor for her daughter who has been sick all her life. She was born with six holes in her heart, and has had five strokes and more than forty surgeries in her short lifetime, according to kare11.com.
Warren posted a message on Facebook asking anyone if they would donate a kidney to her daughter and asked all her friends to repost the message.
Eventually, the post was seen by Cathy Olsen on a friends’ wall.
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