“We’ve got to figure this out because we can’t let another patient die.”
That’s what Jill Grandas from Tennessee Donor Services remembers about her mission on Sept. 11, 2001.
Watch report from Austin Pollack
The skies were closed on 9/11. A Nashville phone call helped save a baby’s life
When thousands of Americans had already lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a donor liver was ready at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville — and a 6-month-old named Kareena had hours to live in Houston…