Mom donates kidney to infant son with rare defect
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — “Special” probably isn’t a strong enough word to describe this Mother’s Day holiday for one Plymouth family.
Autumn Wiste donated one of her kidneys Friday to her youngest son, Lucas. She was released from the hospital Sunday and got to visit him.
“I think it was almost perfect,” Autumn said.
The 13-month-old boy was born with renal failure due to a rare birth defect.
“Basically for the first year of his whole life, we were on dialysis for 12 hours a day,” Lucas’s father, Josh, said.