Typical kid riding her bike, hanging out with her big brother. [ laughs ]. Walking the dog. And swas a typical kid. Until six years ago, when her life took a terrible turn. Well, it was around the time of my seventh birthday that i started feeling just very tired, and i just was not like myself at all. I didnt have any appetite, and i lost all my energy. Doctors discovered laurens heart was seriously damaged. So. It was just [exhales] a complete shock, just to know that from one day to the next, id gone, like. I was never born with any defect or anything. I had simply just caught a virus that attacked my heart. Thats how lauren wound up on a list the long, long list of americans waiting for a transplant. We have, nationwide, 117,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and simply put, there are not enough people registered as organ donors to save to save lives. Fortunately for lauren, a donor came through in time. She received her new heart and started on the road to r
Hospitalized two days later, given fluids and treated with an experimental drug. Some have questioned whether that delay cost him his life. But today his girlfriend said, his suffering is over, my family is deep in sadness and grief, but we leave him in the hands of god. The sheriffs deputy in Dallas County who went into duncans apartment is hospitalized as well tonight. That deputy felt sick days after he had contact with duncans family members and ordered them to be quarantined. Hes being treated as a precaution. Also tonight an nbc news freelance cameraman being treated for ebola received a transfusion from survivor kent brantly. Its believed antibodies might help in ashoka mukpos recovery. Starting saturday, five International Airports in the u. S. Will add an extra level of screening. Newark, jfk, dulles, ohare and atlanta temperatures will have to have their temperature taken before they can leave those airports. The best and brightest who know everything you could ever want to k
Lauren shields seems like a typical kid riding her bike, hanging out with her big brother. [ laughs ]. Walking the dog. And swas a typical kid. Until six years ago, when her life took a terrible turn. Well, it was around the time of my seventh birthday that i started feeling just very tired, and i just was not like myself at all. I didnt have any appetite, and i lost all my energy. Doctors discovered laurens heart was seriously damaged. So. It was just [exhales] a complete shock, just to know that from one day to the next, id gone, like. I was never born with any defect or anything. I had simply just caught a virus that attacked my heart. Thats how lauren wound up on a list the long, long list of americans waiting for a transplant. We have, nationwide, 117,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and simply put, there are not enough people registered as organ donors to save to save lives. Fortunately for lauren, a donor came through in time. She received her new heart
Hanging out with her big brother. [ laughs ]. Walking the dog. And swas a typical kid. Until six years ago, when her life took a terrible turn. Well, it was around the time of my seventh birthday that i started feeling just very tired, and i just was not like myself at all. I didnt have any appetite, and i lost all my energy. Doctors discovered laurens heart was seriously damaged. So. It was just [exhales] a complete shock, just to know that from one day to the next, id gone, like. I was never born with any defect or anything. I had simply just caught a virus that attacked my heart. Thats how lauren wound up on a list the long, long list of americans waiting for a transplant. We have, nationwide, 117,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and simply put, there are not enough people registered as organ donors to save to save lives. Fortunately for lauren, a donor came through in time. She received her new heart and started on the road to recovery. She spent so much ti