One New York dad will be having an extra-special Father's Day on Sunday as he celebrates with his nine-month-old son, who he donated part of his liver to earlier this year to save his life.
Brian Munn's son Caleb was born in September with biliary atresia, a disease that inflames and blocks bile ducts and affects liver functions. At three months old, Caleb was still jaundiced, a discoloration that usually goes away within a few weeks for healthy babies.
Concerned parents Brian, 30, and his wife Brittany, 27, of Binghamton, New York, took their son to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where he was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease.
'I guess I was kind of anticipating [the diagnosis], just with the Googling I was doing… but I wasn't expecting it to be as severe as it was, so it was definitely a shock,' Brittany told FoxNews.com.
Caleb underwent surgery - a Kasei procedure - to replace blocked bile ducks with parts of his own intestine, which work as new ducts.
A month after the procedure, however, Caleb was rushed back to the hospital and doctors realized that the surgery had failed and that his condition was worse than they originally thought and decided he was going to need a transplant.
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