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“He got his kidney,” said a family friend, according to a separate post on theFacebook page for VIP Kidney Health. “The timing is crazy. I’m utterly amazed at the timing.”
“He’s recovering very well!!!” the post from December 28 reads.
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Darrell was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 16 years, reports theCherokee Tribune & Ledger-News.
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Two days after the shooting, Kincaid Eaker said that “along with losing his mother, he also lost the kidney that was intended for him,” family friend Brandy Love, who hosted that holiday party, wrote on the GoFundMe page.
“To look at him you would not even realize he is sick,” Love wrote before the successful transplant. “Kincaid plays the saxophone and is on the swim team, but he is functioning on 19 percent of his kidneys.”
Love said Audra earlier lost two boys, one at four weeks old and another at just four days old, from the same disease that afflicts Kincaid. “Needless to say her spirit was crushed. It took her years to find her light,” which returned in 2004 after Audra adopted a daughter, Olivia, now 15, Love wrote.
Early on, Audra was tested to find out if she was a match for for her son “when he was ready for a transplant,” according to Love. “She knew that there was no question where her son was getting that kidney from. It was coming from her.”
Today, Kincaid and his older sister live with “wonderful, loving, protective grandparents” in Tennessee, although his medical care was centered in Atlanta, according to Love.
She described Audra as “a strong, beautiful woman that loved her children fiercely and stood up for them and herself as much as she could,” and writes that Olivia “is the ultimate protector of her little brother.”
“I know Audra, their fierce protector and her purpose, keeps an eye on them,” wrote Love.
The Facebook post from VIP Kidney Health states, “Kincaid’s family believes this is a second chance for this active young man,” and notes that after word of his need spread, many people signed up as potential donors with theEmory Transplant Centerat Emory University in Atlanta.
source: people.com
