CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hudson Nash really didn’t know what was going on. The 2-year-old has spent so many days, weeks, and months in the hospital.
“When you’re in the moment, it’s natural to think about everything that we have gone through. You're also hopeful for the future,” Jamie Nash said.
That moment was the day his mom had been hoping for since before Christmas. A day Jamie Nash was both excited and nervous about. On July 7, doctors and nurses wheeled Hudson into the operating room at Cedar Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. Hudson was about to get a new kidney.
“I was really nervous the entire time. I barely ate. We did anything we could to distract ourselves,” Nash said.
While Nash and her husband waited for what would be close to 10 hours to see Hudson after surgery another relative, Paige Flotkoetter was going into surgery as well.
“We were just praying that everything went well for her as well,” Nash said.
Flotkoetter is a relative through marriage, her husband is a family cousin. If you’re wondering what are the chances that two people, from the same family, could be going into surgery at the same time at the same hospital, the answer is really high when one of you is the kidney donor for the other one.
“She really is our angel hero sent from above,” Nash said.
After receiving a Christmas card back in November from the Nash’s who included a letter detailing Hudson’s need for a new kidney Flotkoetter decided to see if she was a match. It turns out she was and after being delayed because of COVID-19 the surgery was finally back on.
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