The Syrian mother did not swallow her tears when she embraced for the first time American lady Becky Kibel, who gave her son a new chance to live after giving him a portion of his liver.
"When I saw Becky, I just wanted to hug her, how can I thank her for this precious gift? Thanks to her generosity, she saved my son's life."
A meeting filled with tears of joy brought together new friends. Seven thousand miles apart, Kipel, Ahmed and his family will remain connected for the rest of their lives because a piece of the palm of the hand saved the baby's life.
"I feel that Ahmed is part of me, he is now a family member, he is very beautiful and in good health, he is alive," said Keble, 46, who said after the meeting at the Cleveland clinic where the operation took place.
She wanted to save someone else
When she enrolled herself on the list of organ donors, she was to donate part of her liver to one of her close friends, but the doctors later told her that the patient's health was no longer allowed to perform. The woman living in a small village in western New York decided to continue her efforts to donate to a needy person.
It does not matter if you donate to someone you know or not, because they are designed to donate to anyone in need, says Keble.
The person was Ahmed, who has had symptoms of a rare genetic disease called progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, which caused severe itching and deterioration of his liver, which led to the accumulation of toxins in the blood, according to the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Ahmed's father, Aya and Mustafa, advised the specialists at the Cleveland Clinic branch in Abu Dhabi after informing them that their second-born child would probably die without a liver transplant.
"Every time I see him playing I think of Becky"
After informing the family of a donor in the United States, the mother and her son arrived in Cleveland months ago in preparation for the operation.
The clinic was not close to Kibel's place of residence. She drove her car for two hours to reach the health center, where she donated 20 percent of her liver to Ahmed.
The doctors removed the dead liver of Ahmed, and planted the part donated by the cable.
"Every time I see him walking, running or playing, I think of Becky and I want to thank her," Aya said. "I do not want to sleep at all.
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