The Ultimate Gift

All Laurie McCoy of Clarks Summit wanted was for her mother, Barb McIlwee, to heal.

Barb had been diagnosed with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, a disease which kills both of a person's kidneys, in November of 2010. To treat her condition, she had four hours of dialysis five days a week and needed a kidney transplant.

Laurie recalled the day she discovered that her blood did not match that of her mother, making her an unsuitable kidney donor.

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