HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) – A South Florida teen had a successful surgery at a local hospital as she was in desperate need of a new kidney.
On Wednesday, 18-year-old Arianna Crockett became the hospital’s first ever recipient of a remote donation kidney transplant. The kidney was flown across the country from Denver, Colorado to South Florida.
“Mom got the call from the doctor that you need to pick her up from school right now and bring her to the [emergency room]. We got there, they gave me fluids because I was dehydrated and one of the neurologists came in and said, ‘She needs to go into dialysis,’” said Crockett…