{"id":198591,"date":"2019-03-23T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198591"},"modified":"2019-03-24T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T02:09:55","slug":"adopted-daughter-kidney-dad-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/adopted-daughter-kidney-dad-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted daughter a miraculous kidney match for dad: ‘You saved me so I could save you’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DeLauren McKnight was adopted by Billy Houze as an infant, without having any idea that one day, despite the unbelievable odds, that little girl would save his life. When Houze found out he needed a kidney transplant, it was his adopted daughter who ended up being the match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Houze’s wife, Karen, found out in 1992 that her great-niece — a frequently suicidal heavy drug user — was pregnant. Through what is described as a miracle, when McKnight was born, neither mother nor baby tested positive for drugs at birth, and while her great-niece went to prison, McKnight went into the foster care system until she was adopted by the Houzes at six months old. Houze, a pastor, was now the proud father of five children.<\/p>\n

Over 20 years later, Houze would undergo gallbladder surgery, which led to his kidneys shutting down. After suffering complications from the surgery, he spent weeks in the ICU, on dialysis, with doctors telling him he would need a kidney transplant, which could take up to five years — and it could take up to seven<\/em> years to find a match.<\/p>\n

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